Great Spot on Jupiter suffers from high temperature – lagranepoca

The large patch of Jupiter high temperatures releases into the atmosphere. The causes are still being studied. (Karen Teramura, UH IfA / James O’Donoghue / Luke Moore)

Astronomers expressed surprised by the high temperatures is revealing the Great Spot on Jupiter , also called the Eye of Jupiter . This is a crisis fever.

“Scientists are puzzled,” said NASA publication July 27.

The great Spot on Jupiter is a recent gigantic atmospheric phenomenon, a whirlpool caused by a storm that generated 300 years ago only. As described by NASA, its particular red and its origin remains a mystery. Its size is 2.3 times wider than Earth and its winds reach 650 kilometers per hour.

A new study is looking at why this area is becoming a source of such intense heat, reaching to obtain similar to those of the upper atmosphere of the Earth temperatures. However, there is a big difference between the two planets, “Jupiter is more than five times the distance of the Sun”.

“If the sun is not the source of heat, then what you are?” , raised as a question researchers led by James O’Donoghue, of the University of Boston.

the high temperatures localized on the spot thanks to Spex spectrometer instrument that is in the infrared telescope three meters were detected NASA on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, also operated by the University of Hawaii.

According to the team O’Donoghue, an explanation of the unusual heat could be from a clash of two types of energy produces the stain. gravity waves and acoustic waves

“gravity waves are very similar to when a guitar string sounds, while sound waves are compression air (sound waves). The heating in the top about 800 kilometers above the great red spot atmosphere is believed to be caused by a combination of these two types of waves, which are ‘breaking’, like the waves on a beach “describes the study.

James O’Donoghue explained that these high temperatures could be represented as a” smoking “energy transfer . With this idea the design and image of the event took place (see cover photo).

“This tells us that the warming of the entire planet is explained by a ‘crisis energy ‘, and by this problem, high above atmospheric temperatures hundreds of degrees warmer than what might have been by sunlight alone, “said the scientist.

Jupiter, the planet that overthrew the solar system in the past , and experienced a recent crash of a comet , is suffering a crisis of high temperatures.

This phenomenon, on another scale, as was seen on Earth, in the Andes revealed the team, but never observed in the rest of the solar system.