Date: 13/12/2017 21:45:41
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1161020
Subject: Juno reveals the roots of Jupiter's Great Red Spot

The Great Red Spot, a gigantic storm of crimson clouds bigger than the Earth, has been raging on Jupiter’s surface for centuries. We’ve known its size in two dimensions for a long time, but after a close flyover in July the Juno probe has finally given us an answer about how deep into the atmosphere the storm’s roots run. In the process, the mission also uncovered two new radiation zones.

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Date: 13/12/2017 22:11:15
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1161025
Subject: re: Juno reveals the roots of Jupiter's Great Red Spot

Tau.Neutrino said:


https://newatlas.com/jupiter-great-red-spot-roots/52571/

The Great Red Spot, a gigantic storm of crimson clouds bigger than the Earth, has been raging on Jupiter’s surface for centuries. We’ve known its size in two dimensions for a long time, but after a close flyover in July the Juno probe has finally given us an answer about how deep into the atmosphere the storm’s roots run. In the process, the mission also uncovered two new radiation zones.

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Original press releass link at https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2017-316&rn=news.xml&rst=7021!

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Date: 15/12/2017 04:28:32
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1161624
Subject: re: Juno reveals the roots of Jupiter's Great Red Spot

> Juno data indicate that the solar system’s most famous storm is almost one-and-a-half Earths wide, and has roots that penetrate about 300 kilometers into the planet’s atmosphere.

How does that compare to the thickness of Jupiter’s atmosphere?

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