Friday, October 23, 2015

Jupiter's red spot by Hannah Zenk

A new collection of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope came out of Jupiter. This is part of a new campaign to take photos of the outer planets yearly. It would help show the changes of the planets. As the new photos of Jupiter came in, scientists noticed some major changes. When we think of Jupiter, we think of the Great Red Spot. This is basically a gigantic hurricane far larger than our entire planet. The new photos show the Great Red Spot shrinking. Scientist have know for a long time that the spot is shrinking but it is shrinking slower than first thought. Then, right next to the Great Red Spot they noticed cyclonic storms, which are circulating patterns several thousand kilometers across. These are waves, made of streams of gas that bobble up and down like waves in the ocean. Similar to baroclinic waves in earth's atmosphere. Which are rapidly rotating stratified fluid.



  1. If the Great Red Spot took up a good portion of Jupiter, do you think it would affect us here on earth?
  2. Do you think there is any way we could live on Jupiter?
  3. Do you think the Great Red Spot will ever go away?



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7 comments:

  1. UnknownOctober 23, 2015 at 10:09 AM

    I think it would be possible to live on Jupiter, but not worth the effort.

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  2. Dakota laymanOctober 23, 2015 at 10:17 AM

    I think that even if the red spot hurricane were the size of the entirety of jupiter it would still be contained by gravity and the distance and woyld not affect earth at all

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  3. AnonymousOctober 24, 2015 at 12:15 PM

    I cannot see any possibility for us living on Jupiter because its a GAS GIANT.

    Joe West

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  4. AnonymousOctober 25, 2015 at 1:18 PM

    Since the red spot is shrinking I think it is possible that it could go away

    Sara Delano

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  5. AnonymousOctober 25, 2015 at 5:30 PM

    I personally don't think we'll ever live on mars and or have a very very small chance of visiting it just due to the huge timely devotion towards a mars mission

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  6. Andrew PowellOctober 28, 2015 at 7:46 PM

    If the red spot doesn't have a continual source of energy to keep it spinning it will eventual use up all its rotational energy and gradually slow and dissipate. Like a spinning top.

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  7. AnonymousNovember 4, 2015 at 3:12 PM

    I wonder how long it would take for the red spot to go away
    Jake Dunbar

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