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Jupiter, the fifth planet from the Sun, is the largest planet in the solar system and has more than twice the mass of all the other planets combined. But among these things, what surprises is the huge red spot or Great Red Spot located on the planet Jupiter, which is also known as GRS. This is the largest storm in the solar system.
Secret of GRS
The mystery of GRS astonishes even scientists. It is a huge rotating storm, larger than the Earth in size and has been observed for centuries. In recent years, information received from the US Space Agency’s Juno and Hubble space telescopes has revealed many new things about this mysterious spot.
This spot is an anticyclone
This spot is an anticyclone, which keeps rotating in Jupiter’s atmosphere. Its size is so big that it can contain the entire earth. Astronomers have observed it continuously for at least 150–300 years. Earlier it was very big, but now it is gradually shrinking. NASA’s Juno spacecraft had taken excellent photographs of it in the year 2018, in which the colors were shown in a better way. Juno said that the base of this storm is very deep, some storms reach up to 100 kilometers, while the giant red spot goes more than 350 kilometers.
GRS is not as stable as it seems
Juno is a solar powered spacecraft, which makes long revolutions around Jupiter. Its main objective is to understand the secrets of the origin, evolution of Jupiter and the giant planets of the solar system. Recently, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope also gave information about this spot, according to which, GRS is not as stable as it looks. It shakes and shakes like a bowl of jelly. Scientists created a time-lapse movie from Hubble’s images, which shows the spot expanding and shrinking in size every 90 days. It becomes wide when it is slow and narrow when it is fast.
High resolution images clearly show for the first time that it contracts and expands
Giving information about this, NASA researcher Amy Simon said, “We worked under the Outer Planet Atmosphere Legacy Program, which revealed that there is a slight change in its speed, but changing the shape in this way was unexpected. Hubble’s high resolution pictures clearly showed for the first time that it contracts and expands. No hydrodynamic explanation has been found yet.
At the same time, when viewed in ultraviolet light, it was found that when the spot is the largest, its center is the brightest, due to which the haze is less absorbed in the upper atmosphere. These changes occur daily and show subtle changes in the storm’s color, shape, and speed. According to scientists, this discovery will help in understanding Earth’s storms and will make it easier to study the weather of planets of other stars. (input-agency)