Are Jupiter’s Spots Disappearing?
Jupiter’s stormy surface could be settling down, according to calculations by UC Berkeley physicist Philip Marcus. According to Marcus, Jupiter’s temperature and the number of storms on its surface are directly connected. As the number of vortices decrease, its temperature should go up by about 10-degrees Celsius – warmer near the equator and cooler near the poles. This cycle seems to repeat itself about every 70 years. But don’t worry; the Great Red Spot isn’t going anywhere.
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