Hot spots on the buyer moves like toys


Enables astronomers and through sensor U.S. space "Cassini" NASA's Cassini spacecraft of clues one secrets task reason for high temperatures in some places near the equator in the atmosphere of a planet "buyer" Jupiter, called astronomers "hot spots" hot spots and that work to create waves called "Surf Rossbe" Rossby wave with movement, especially in the atmosphere resembling the movement of a game of "horse" in the cities of toys carousel horse on a merry-go-round which rise and fall in the form of waves, according to what was said by astronomers.


 
Principal investigator in this study, "David Choi" David Choi from the center "Goddard Space Research" NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, who presented the scientific paper this study to the magazine "Icarus" journal Icarus that be published in the issue dated during the month of April 2013, God willing, he said the first time that astronomers can follow the shape of the hot spots in the atmosphere buyer directly and through different periods of time, and determine the nature of dynamic movement.

Collection researcher "Shui" and his colleagues in the study of hundreds of documentaries obtained by the sensor "Cassini" to the surface of Jupiter during its flight around late 2000 AD, were enlarge films covering Packages dark belts and white glossy located at latitude 7 degrees almost northern equator Jupiter, these films cover what happened in this area in two months - Ardaan of course - of the amount of change in the size of the hot spots and shape, and each hot spot covering amounted area larger than North America.

The second man in this project researcher "Ashwin Vasavada" Ashwin Vasavada of "Institute Jet Propulsion" in Pasadena / California NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said that all the previous information about "hot spots" on Jupiter obtained from the sensor U.S. "Galileo" NASA's Galileo mission who arrived Jupiter in 1995 AD, and showed pictures taken by the buyer and a wind complex about these dark spots and whether hurricanes or waves, while pictures showed the latest captured by the probe "Cassini" clearly the evolution of "hotspots" and their life cycle is complete.

Because spots warm pervades the atmosphere of Jupiter, they are invisible layer of the atmosphere, it is possible that it drops to a lower level of level that can be formed when water, and appear in the pictures hot spots strange but because class lower be Adfa relatively appears spots shiny hot during infrared monitoring when they feel the heat, hence the name of these hot spots.

Only one case can occur for hotspots when washed a large block of gases in the atmosphere and becomes hot or dry during this process, but regularity odd hotspots led scientists to think that there wave and other air where, so have the number 8 or 10 hot spots at the same level , and diverge blades of clouds from each other regularly, a process that explains the emergence directed that pushes cold air to the bottom, that is tearing apart all the clouds in and separated from each other, and then carries warm air to the top, who produces cloud cover heavy that appear in the Feather Plumes' clouds, which trailed computer simulation of this natural process.

Depending on the films probe "Cassini" drawing scientists in this study a map showing wind and feathers around the hot spots and inside, and studied the interactions that can occur with "swirls" vortices and escalation which could merge hotspots, and to separate these movements for "jet stream" jet stream which stabilizes the hot spots, the track scientists movement called "Scooter" Scooter any car fast a movement similar to the movement of clouds high in the atmosphere Ground, thus enabling scientists to measure the speed of the jet stream for the first time in the atmosphere of Jupiter, which amounts to between 300 - 450 miles per hour (500-720 kilometers per hour), the highest speed recorded for jet stream at all, as the top speed registered's jet stream in the former reached 225 miles per hour (362 kilometers per hour).

Researchers have noted that the movement of hot spots in the atmosphere of Jupiter similar to the "waves Rossbe" Rossby wave known in atmospheric Ground, a band that has a great role in the operations of the weather in the atmosphere Ground For example, when the wind blows Arctic toward Florida U.S. it fall down layers of the atmosphere above because coldness and weight gain Vilv crops where, and then interact waves "Rossbe" this Arctic air cold and the atmosphere becomes nice and perfect, and travel wave "Rossbe" on the planet, but she goes strangely toward the north as well as south.

The spin surrounding this wave hot spots around the planet from the west towards the east, and instead move from north to south, we see moving from the top of the atmosphere to the bottom and scientists speculate that this wave may go up and down Bmfdar 15-30 miles (24-50 kilometers) the surface of Jupiter.




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