2023-10-21 09:30:00
Written by Amira Shehata Saturday, October 21, 2023 12:30 PM Although NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was initially described as having the ability to reveal the outermost horizons of the universe, some of the observatory’s most accurate images are actually images For our solar system, thanks to a gold-plated mirror cell and infrared equipment, such as the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam), scientists announced that telescope images provide new data regarding a planet we thought we knew well: Jupiter. A telescope image of Jupiter. According to what was reported by the “space” website, the images taken by the observatory were able to show completely new things regarding its moons, its atmosphere, and its rings, and now a team of researchers has realized that there is a high-speed jet stream on the planet with a width of more than 3,000 miles (4,800 km), and is moving at a speed of regarding 320 miles per hour (515 kilometers per hour), which is stronger than a Category 5 hurricane, and this is something that has never been seen before. “This completely surprised us,” Ricardo Hueso of the University of the Basque Country in Bilbao, Spain, and lead investigator of a paper describing the findings, said in a statement. “This comparison can help us understand how wind speeds on Jupiter change with altitude and generate what is known as wind shear, which is somewhat similar to wind speed gradients over short distances,” the team explains.
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