{"id":113388,"date":"2020-09-24T15:23:49","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T22:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/the-strange-storms-on-jupiter"},"modified":"2020-09-26T08:11:41","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T15:11:41","slug":"the-strange-storms-on-jupiter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/the-strange-storms-on-jupiter","title":{"rendered":"The strange storms on Jupiter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-strange-storms-on-jupiter.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the south pole of Jupiter lurks a striking sight\u2014even for a gas giant planet covered in colorful bands that sports a red spot larger than the earth. Down near the south pole of the planet, mostly hidden from the prying eyes of humans, is a collection of swirling storms arranged in an unusually geometric pattern.<\/p>\n<p>Since they were first spotted by NASA\u2019s Juno space probe in 2019, the storms have presented something of a mystery to scientists. The storms are analogous to hurricanes on Earth. However, on our planet, hurricanes do not gather themselves at the poles and twirl around each other in the shape of a pentagon or hexagon, as do Jupiter\u2019s curious storms.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a research team working in the lab of Andy Ingersoll, Caltech professor of planetary science, has discovered why Jupiter\u2019s storms behave so strangely. They did so using math derived from a proof written by Lord Kelvin, a British mathematical physicist and engineer, nearly 150 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the south pole of Jupiter lurks a striking sight\u2014even for a gas giant planet covered in colorful bands that sports a red spot larger than the earth. Down near the south pole of the planet, mostly hidden from the prying eyes of humans, is a collection of swirling storms arranged in an unusually geometric [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,2229,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-mathematics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113445,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113388\/revisions\/113445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}