A Giant Heat Wave Discovered on Jupiter

Sagittarius beware, you may experience stomach burning problems this week as there is a major heat wave on your ruling planet Jupiter. The area covered by this heat wave, 10 times the volume of the Earth bigger.

This huge heat wave, with a width of 130 thousand kilometers, 700 degrees to the temperature an average tree stump burns at 600 degrees, the fires in the kitchens usually do not reach 300 degrees. The speed of movement of the heat wave spreading from the north pole of the planet can reach 2400 meters per second (86400 km per hour).

Heatwave hoped to reveal Jupiter’s secret

The gas giant, the largest planet in the Solar System Jupiter, actually a much hotter planet than predicted by models and theories. Formed by direct solar winds, according to scientists Jupiter aurorasThis could be one of the most important reasons why the planet is hotter than expected.

astronomer from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) James O’Donoghue““Last year we produced the first images of Jupiter’s upper atmosphere where we were able to identify the dominant heat sources.” then, thanks to these maps, Jupiter’s aurora can explain the high temperatures He said they could show it.

Normally, Jupiter is roughly five times farther from the Sun than Earth and receives only 4% of the Sun’s radiation that we can. Therefore, the average temperature of the gas giant -73 degrees While it should be, Jupiter is on fire with 420 degrees. This suggests that there is something on the planet that we do not know.

Unlike on Earth, Jupiter constantly has auroras. Because the only source of these structures on our planet is the Solar Winds coming from space, but the situation is different on Jupiter. gas giant satellite Particles from Io due to the constant polar lights. Io is the most volcanic structure in the Solar System and is constantly ejecting sulfuric gases into Jupiter’s atmosphere. This situation is constantly increasing the temperature of the planet.