Data collected by the NASA Juno mission has allowed planetary scientists to begin mapping the planet's interior structure. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Posted on 11/03/2024 11:54:36 AM PST by MtnClimber
Explanation: What's that black spot on Jupiter? No one is sure. During one pass of NASA's Juno over Jupiter, the robotic spacecraft imaged an usually dark cloud feature informally dubbed the Abyss. Surrounding cloud patterns show the Abyss to be at the center of a vortex. Since dark features on Jupiter's atmosphere tend to run deeper than light features, the Abyss may really be the deep hole that it appears -- but without more evidence that remains conjecture. The Abyss is surrounded by a complex of meandering clouds and other swirling storm systems, some of which are topped by light colored, high-altitude clouds. The featured image was captured in 2019 while Juno passed only about 15,000 kilometers above Jupiter's cloud tops. The next close pass of Juno near Jupiter will be in about three weeks.
Data collected by the NASA Juno mission has allowed planetary scientists to begin mapping the planet's interior structure. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Have you ever heard of Earth's Thermosphere?
The thermosphere begins at about 80 km (50 mi) above sea level. At these high altitudes, the residual atmospheric gases sort into strata according to molecular mass (see turbosphere). Thermospheric temperatures increase with altitude due to absorption of highly energetic solar radiation. Temperatures are highly dependent on solar activity, and can rise to 2,000 °C (3,630 °F) or more.
This is ABOVE Earth's stratosphere, which maintains a more-or-less constant -40 °C.
Regards,
Might be because that huge gas planet and
atmosphere rotates in 10 hours.
The Sun is similar. Its surface temperature is thousands of degrees m but its atmosphere is literally a million degrees. Scientists haven’t yet figured out why.
Hillary’s emails? Epstein’s client list? P. Diddy’s client list? excess democratic ballots? All kinds of things could be in that black hole!
Jupiter will be visible in a just a little while.
My back yard faces due east. The Atlantic is eight miles east. When the Summer is over and the boardwalk closes down there is no light pollution
Even at sea level. In Winter I can sometimes see a faint spiral arm of the Milky Way.
I have a six inch Newtonian refractor scope.,
it’s staring back at me...
Perhaps its just a void produced by the eye of a whirlpool in the upper layers of the atmosphere. (See the vortex about 8:55 min into this Video) The inverted whirlpool
Other speculation......The plumber in me says someone pulled the plug and the Jovian surface is slowly draining into the hollow core.
The Sci Fi side of me says maybe its a A floating cloud city with domed observation area, or this is a worm hole, but I am not certain if you can use it to travel to distant places or if something large and terrifying pokes its head out from time to time.
Perhaps this is abiotic oil formed by pressure under methane atmosphere of Jupiter. The super chilled viscous oil collects and a tornado like swirling of freezing winds spin it around slowly forming a gooy mountain up to the surface. Think a pool/mound of really dense oily taffy moving in a slow circle.
Jupiter's gravity is continually collecting additional material from space, and once it hits ignition mass we will live in a Binary Star System! Nifty!
Jupiter’s Belly Button................But not Uranus..............
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