The surprising finding that the Great Red Spot of Jupiter revealed – Univisión

Scientists used an infrared spectrometer NASA telescope to create a map of the temperature distribution along its fringes. When they analyzed the red spot, they found something they did not expect.

The giant red spot on Jupiter generates so much turbulence and heat his stormy center, creating waves that travel hundreds of miles up, which makes the outer atmosphere of the planet to warm.

At least that’s what scientists who wrote their conclusions on the famous say spot of the fifth planet in the solar system in the journal Nature .

the Great Red spot on Jupiter about 10,000 miles in diameter is the solar system’s largest permanent storm and generates winds that will speed up to 350 miles per hour.

it is estimated that atmospheric turbulence of Jupiter existed for about 300 years.

Very hot

its duration, coupled with the heat produced is one of the explanations why the gaseous planet is so hot on its outer atmosphere.

Scientists at the University of Leicester and Boston University used a spectrometer infrared telescope Space Agency US, NASA, to create a map of the temperature distribution along its fringes.

But the surprise with which found was that the Great Red Spot expels heat up amounting to about 1,600 degrees Kelvin.

So its impact on global temperature, especially in the outer layers of the Jovian atmosphere.

“the upper atmosphere of Jupiter’s Great Red spot (…) is hundreds of degrees hotter than anywhere else on the planet,” says the study.

the area on that stormy point is much warmer than its surrounding areas, about 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit, the study says.