Planet Jupiter is at the center of an incredible announcement after scientists managed to discover something that could hardly be achieved, something that finally shows us how complex the planets in our solar system are. More precisely, the researchers finally managed to discover why the giant storms on the planet Jupiter remain in similar geometric formations over time, especially around the poles that the cosmic body has.
Planet Jupiter it has a lot of storms dominating its atmosphere at the moment, they have been there for at least a few centuries, and the researchers finally managed to unravel the mystery behind the maintenance of the current formations. The planet Jupiter has 8 large cyclones at the north pole that surround one main one, while at the south pole there are "only" six, each of them having diameters between 4000 and 7000 kilometers, so they are huge.
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Planet Jupiter has each of these cyclones placed at distances of approximately 8700 kilometers from each other, and this distance remains constant over time, at least based on the observations made so far. Also based on the observations so far, the researchers discovered that the stability of these cyclones depends on the height they have in the atmosphere of the planet Jupiter, but also on the anticyclonic rings that exist around each of them.
"We were surprised by the fact that the poles of Jupiter are not like those of other planets. I have never seen anything like these groups of cyclones organized in regular patterns. All previous theories predicted that the polar regions of the giant planets should be dominated by large cyclones over their poles, such as what is seen at Saturn, or remain chaotic. What we see at Jupiter means that those previous theories are wrong and we need something new."
Planet Jupiter it has a very fragile balance in terms of the way in which all these cyclones were formed and exist, and this is because if the anticyclones did not keep the cyclones at a distance from each other, they could move away. Scientists still do not know what exactly keeps this fragile balance between cyclones, and this is one of the mysteries that came along with the explanation of how they occupy that area, and stay in the same place.
Planet Jupiter this phenomenon will be intensively studied by scientists in the coming years, and this is because they want to find out very clearly why things are happening in this way there, and to compare the situation with the one on Earth.
