Jupiter's Great Red Spot

The world's largest and most powerful hurricanes have ever occurred across 1000 miles with winds up to 200 mph. This is wide enough to spread almost around the world. But the Great Red Spot, a giant Jupiter storm, is still diluting that sort of storm. Gigantic means there double the width of Earth.

The Great Red Spot has stirred violently over Jupiter's skies for the last 150 years – perhaps far longer than this – with chaotic winds peaking at 400 mph. While individuals have seen a large place in Jupiter as early as the beginning of a telescope in the 1600s, the question of a distinct storm is still uncertain. Scientists today know that the Great Red Spot is there and has been there for some time, but still, strive to discover what generates its rotten tones.

Figure 1 Jupiter great red spots, image capture on June 2008.

The great red spot is not easy to comprehend, and this is mainly the fault of Jupiter. Jupiter contains mainly gas, a thousand times as large as Earth. The center is rounded by a liquid ocean of hydrogen and primarily hydrogen and helium are in the atmosphere. That does not mean a solid footing as we are weakening storms on Earth. Jupiter's clouds can block clear lower atmospheric observations. Although some researchers have studied Jupiter places in its lower atmosphere, surrounding sondes and telescopes examining the Greater Red Spot can observe only clouds dispersed across the atmosphere.

In this creative depiction of an image from NASA's Juno spacecraft, which showed the famed Great Red Spot on the planet, Jupiter's already brilliant hues are extra remarkable. Citizen scientist Mary J. Murphy has edited a picture from the JunoCam instrument of the Spacecraft, boosting the saturation in color to create the piece called the Rose by Murphy.

Figure 2 Mary J. Murphy enhanced the color saturation of an image from the JunoCam instrument on the spacecraft to create a composition she calls "The Rose." credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS. 

The Greater Red Spot is a storm with crimson-colored clouds on Jupiter's southern hemisphere that spin on the contrary at wind speeds that exceed those in any tempest on Earth. The Great Red Spot has been changing steadily over the years and is about 1.3 times bigger than our world today. The data from the Juno spacecraft let scientists discover that the roots of the turmoil extend into Jupiter's atmosphere at least 200 miles (320 km). In comparison, only approximately 15 km (9 mi) from the height of the storm to below is a typical tropical Earth cyclone.

Jupiter's image, taken on 27th June 2019, revealed a more intense color range in clouds whirling in the turbulent atmosphere that the giant planet had seen in earlier years, Great Red Spot. Jupiter was seen in the Hubble Space Telescope view. The colors and their fluctuations are an essential indication of continuous processes in the atmosphere of Jupiter.

Figure 3 Arrows indicating the storms patterns that created red spots at Jupiter.

The strips are produced by variances in ammonia ice cloud thickness and height. Different air pressures produce colorful bands that flow in opposite directions at different latitudes. Lighter stripes ascend and are thicker than darker stripes. Moreover, these chemicals only constitute a small part of the air. "That's something we're talking about that's only a little part of the attraction," added Simon. "The colors we see make it so difficult to figure out what exactly."

The atmosphere in which Loeffler generates his own batch by heating sulfide hydrogen and ammonia is unstable under Earth's atmospheric conditions. He then blows them with charged particles, like the cosmic rays that impact the clouds of Jupiter. "With ammonium hydrosulfide irradiation, our initial step is to try to identify the forms," Loeffler stated. "We finished the identification of these new items lately and are now working to match what we learned with the Jupiter colors."

Coloring can be caused by several sources, in contrast to ammonium sulfide, with the Great Red Spot and other reddish portions of Jupiter. "Ideally, you would like to mix everything in Jupiter's atmosphere at the correct temperature with the right components, and then radiate it at the optimum amounts."