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NASA spacecraft approaches “Jupiter’s Angry Eye” and discovers the secrets of “Friel”

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The US space agency “NASA” managed to approach and fly over one of the biggest mysteries of Jupiter, which is represented by the “angry red eye”, as scientists describe it, and which is more than the size of the planet Earth.

NASA’s Juno probe provided new information during its tour around Jupiter, as it monitored the unique features of the planet, especially the “Angry Eye of Jupiter”, its strange and exciting atmosphere, in addition to monitoring what is happening beneath its giant clouds for the first time.
The researchers published several research papers about the new discoveries of the Juno probe in the scientific journal “Science”, which focused on the results of geophysical research.

According to the sources, the Juno probe was able to fly low from Jupiter at an estimated speed of 209,000 kilometers per hour, during which scientists were able to measure speed changes at 0.01 millimeters per second using the deep space network tracking antenna, and to study a distance of more than 650 kilometers, including the red spot. Unique to Jupiter.
Scientists: the probe discovered a “treasure of data”

“These new observations from Juno open up a treasure trove of new information about Jupiter’s observable and mysterious features. Each paper sheds light on different aspects of the planet’s atmospheric processes,” said Laurie Gleese, director of the Planetary Science Division at NASA in Washington.

And in turn, the principal official in charge of the Juno probe, researcher Scott Bolton, from the Southwest Research Institute, told “Science”, speaking about the depth of Jupiter’s vortices: “In the past, Juno surprised us with signals showing that strange phenomena in the atmosphere of Jupiter “Very deep than expected. Now, we’re beginning to put together all these individual images and cues and get our first true understanding of Jupiter’s beautiful and violent atmosphere – in 3D.”

The new results, reported in an article published in the journal Phys, show that hurricanes are warmer from the top, with lower density in the atmosphere, while they are cooler at the bottom, with higher intensity. Hurricanes, spinning in the opposite direction, are cooler at the top but warmer at the bottom.

The results also indicate that these superstorms are much longer than expected, with some extending 60 miles (100 km) below cloud tops, including the Great Red Spot, which extends more than 200 miles (350 km).

“Being able to complete the discovery of the Red Spot at depth gives us great confidence that gravitational experiments are going to give us great confidence that our gravitational experiments will be able to do so,” said Marzia Parisi, a scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and lead author of a paper published in the journal Science on the probe’s flyby of the Great Red Spot. “Futures on Jupiter will lead to equally interesting results.”

Alien wind disks around Jupiter

In addition to hurricanes and anticyclones, Jupiter is known for its distinctive belts, which are groups of white and red clouds that wrap around the planet, which form strong east and west winds moving in opposite directions separated by giant hurricanes. Researchers are still trying to solve the mystery of how these jet streams are formed via the probe’s data.

Friel cells on Mars are different from Earth

“By following ammonia we found circulation cells in the northern and southern hemispheres that are similar in nature to ferel cells, which control much of our climate here on Earth,” said Keren Doerr, a researcher at the Weizmann Institute.

The researcher continues: “Earth contains one ferrill cell for each hemisphere, but Jupiter has 8 cells, each of which is at least thirty times larger than those on Earth.”

It is worth noting that the Friel cells are the movement of winds that are formed on the planet around the north and south poles, where part of the Earth’s air diverges and rises very high at 60 degrees latitude and moves towards the poles and creates the polar cell (Ferrel). The rest moves toward the equator where it collides at 30 degrees latitude with higher level air to form the Hadley cell.

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