What did Scientist discover on Jupiter?

The King of the solar system, Jupiter, is a huge, terrifying planet that has managed to keep some things from us despite being studied for centuries and even visited by nine space probes in the last 50 years. From planetary cannibalism to giant spots, you have never seen before, we are going to uncover all of Jupiter's dark secrets.

You have undoubtedly heard about Jupiter's Great Red Spot, the unusually large storm that has been raging for hundreds of years. Wider than Earth and larger, a storm like that raging on Earth's surface would be the end of Earth as we know it.

However, you may not be aware that a new, extremely powerful storm, known as the Great Cold Spot, has arrived in town.

How did we miss this enormous hurricane? Well, we were mesmerized by the swirling clouds of the gas giant and did not look closely enough at Jupiter's poles, and that is exactly where the great cold spot has been hiding. It is as large as the Great Red Spot and the coldest place in Jupiter's clouds, about two hundred degrees Celsius cooler than its surroundings.

However, scientists have a more compelling explanation. The great cold spot is hidden by Jupiter's potent auroras, which are like Earth's Northern Lights but many times more powerful. In addition, unlike the Great Red Spot, which is not eager to change much, the great cold spot is volatile; it is constantly growing bigger and smaller and changing its shape.

Fueled by auroras and Jupiter's auroras would be an amazing sight to see. They aren't exactly like the ones on Earth. We get our space light shows thanks to the sun's solar wind but Jupiter's auroras don't rely much on the Sun they appear thanks to the charged particles inside Jupiter's irrationally large magnetosphere most of these particles come from Jupiter's volcanic moon if the great cold spot is really formed by auroras then it might be thousands of years old.

There is a black vortex with the interesting moniker of the Great Abyss lurking in Jupiter's dangerous atmosphere among the gorgeous whirling gases that is far older than the Great Red area and is not the only enigmatic area.

Let me remind you that we have sent nine spacecraft to this giant, starting with Pioneer 10 in 1973, which was the first to fly by Jupiter, to Juno, which is the most recent spacecraft to conduct an in-depth study of the planet. It took Juno 20 passes to finally notice and capture this dark center of the great Abyss.

The great Abyss is not anything like a black hole; it is the very dark center of a vortex. It might run deep, but at least it would not suck you in like a black hole would. I would call it Jupiter's Great Black Hole, but I guess that name would be a little bit confusing.

The atmosphere of Jupiter is terrifying. The gas giant is mostly composed of hydrogen and helium, but its clouds are even more deadly than that since they are completely formed of ammonia ice at the top.

Deeper beneath the vibrant patterns, you had probably come across ammonium hydrosulfide crystals, and at the gas giant's very bottom, there would be water ice and vapor. That is right. Jupiter is strange since its surface is not solid.

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system and is more massive than all the other planets put together. Despite this, Jupiter is a chilly cloud drifting in space with a vast hydrogen ocean at its center. There are also winds on Jupiter.

Jupiter's winds are obscenely terrifying; they are powerful enough to blast three Earths' worth of material around the planet near its equator, traveling at speeds of up to 540 kilometers per second, and they may even be blowing deep into Jupiter's atmosphere. Out of Jupiter's magnetic field

No other planet in the solar system can boast a magnetosphere that is stronger than Jupiter's, which is enormous and twenty-one times the diameter of Jupiter itself. As if that were not enough, this gas giant also has not one, not two, but three magnetic poles, with the third one located close to Jupiter's equator.

The enormous blue spot, which Juno only recently found. I do not know whether it is just me, but Jupiter's spot names seem a little repetitive.

Well, that is amazing, but you know what is even more amazing than that? Jupiter is a planetary cannibal, which explains why it is so enormous. Despite being so gaseous, Jupiter has a lot of heavy elements inside it, and thanks to Juno, we now know that this enormous planet has about 30 Earths worth of heavy elements in it all because Jupiter is gobbling up other planets in the solar system.

Imagine what it would be like to have another rocky planet in the solar system. Sure, it could have pushed Earth out of the habitable zone, or this new planet could have crashed into Earth leaving us without any chance of life. But they are not exactly planets; they are more like planetesimals, which are clumps of dust and rock that can be hundreds of kilometers across if Jupiter hadn't eaten them for breakfast.

That is a story for another time, but I wouldn't mind seeing another planet like Kepler-22b roving about the solar system. So put on your spacesuit and aboard the spacecraft.