Juno captures new images of the red dot

Juno captured new images of Jupiter's red spot, which could help scientists understand why she was constantly contracting.

According to a statement posted on the official website of the US Space Agency "NASA", historians have discovered that the Italian astronomer Giovanni Cbadini had a big red spot and had been painted in 1665.

Then, the planetary scientists discovered that the Red Spot was a powerful hurricane whose winds were blowing at an incredible speed of 430 km / h. The difference in temperature between its cold and hot regions exceeds several hundred degrees. According to astronomers, the big red dot is a heater that captures the heat from inside the buyer and releases it into the atmosphere, so temperatures are higher than the theory. This problem has recently been confirmed by Juno probes.

The dimensions of the stain can only be measured in kilometers, but in diameter, where they are 1.3 times wider than the Earth. Knowing that in the past, they were about three times larger than Earth. Scientists have not yet determined why the stain is small and how.

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The Juno probe has been studying Jupiter since 2015 and is expected to answer this question by studying the composition of the planet's core, especially around the big red dot and other hurricanes. The probe approaches the planet every two months, records information about its magnetic field and takes new images from different angles of hurricanes, clouds and gas accumulation. It was his last stop at the end of last July, taking pictures of the big red dot from an unusual angle, where the dot appears as a sun rising or setting in the sky.

Source: Novosti

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