A new study revealed that scientists have succeeded in deciphering the similarity of the hurricanes of the planets Earth and Jupiter; Where scientists have found that the rapid increase in temperatures in Jupiter through convection, transports the less dense air to the top of the giant hurricanes, which allows them to continue.
The researchers say: The strange similarity between Earth and Jupiter may lead to provide some ideas about the processes that occur in the atmosphere of our planet; Some observations suggest that the convection process may be very similar on the two planets.
“When I saw the turbulence surrounding Hurricanes Jovian on Jupiter, I was reminded of the turbulence we see in the ocean around cyclone eddies on our planet,” said oceanographer Leah Sigelman of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. According to “Sky News”.
Earlier, scientists attributed the disturbances of Jupiter to the mechanism of convection, but they did not have enough detailed data to confirm this theory, until the Juno spacecraft reached Jupiter, and took its place in orbit around the giant gaseous planet, allowing detailed images of the regions to be obtained. troubled. And because the distance between Jupiter and the sun is very large (779 million km), the heat that arrives from the sun is weak, and to keep the planet from freezing, the convection process under the surface produces enough heat to maintain the gas giant. Convection also occurs in the Earth’s mantle, and moist convection leads to the development of thunderstorms, which are responsible for severe weather around the world such as hurricanes.
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