The newly discovered equatorial jet stream travels at about 320 miles (515 kilometers) per hour, twice the sustained wind speed of a Category 5 hurricane on Earth.It is located about 25 miles (40 kilometers) above the clouds in Jupiter’s lower stratosphere
NASA recently announced that the Webb Space Telescope has discovered an unprecedented new feature in Jupiter’s atmosphere – a high-speed jet stream (equatorial jet stream) with a width of more than 3,000 miles (4,800 kilometers), located above the equator of Jupiter. Above the clouds.
“This was a big surprise to us,” said Ricardo Hueso of the Basque University in Bilbao, Spain, and lead author of a paper describing the findings. “The fuzzy haze we had always seen in Jupiter’s atmosphere now appears to be clear features, and we can track them as Jupiter spins rapidly.”
According to NASA’s official website, the newly discovered equatorial jet stream travels at about 320 miles (515 kilometers) per hour, which is twice the sustained wind speed of a Category 5 hurricane on Earth. It is located about 25 miles (40 kilometers) above the clouds in Jupiter’s lower stratosphere.
“Jupiter’s equatorial stratosphere has complex but repeatable wind and temperature patterns that are higher than winds in clouds and haze measured at these wavelengths,” explains team member Leigh Fletcher from the University of Leicester in the UK. “If this The intensity of the new jets is related to stratospheric oscillation patterns, and we might expect the jets to change significantly over the next two to four years.”
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2023-10-23 02:01:22
