{"id":120662,"date":"2021-03-18T10:22:31","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T17:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/meteorological-beast-in-our-solar-system-powerful-stratospheric-winds-measured-on-jupiter-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2021-03-18T10:22:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T17:22:31","slug":"meteorological-beast-in-our-solar-system-powerful-stratospheric-winds-measured-on-jupiter-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/meteorological-beast-in-our-solar-system-powerful-stratospheric-winds-measured-on-jupiter-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMeteorological Beast in Our Solar System\u201d \u2013 Powerful Stratospheric Winds Measured on Jupiter for the First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/meteorological-beast-in-our-solar-system-powerful-stratospheric-winds-measured-on-jupiter-for-the-first-time.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most spectacular result is the presence of strong jets, with speeds of up to 400 meters per second, which are located under the aurorae near the poles,\u201d says Cavali\u00e9. These wind speeds, equivalent to about 1450 kilometers an hour, are more than twice the maximum storm speeds reached in Jupiter\u2019s Great Red Spot and over three times the wind speed measured on Earth\u2019s strongest tornadoes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur detection indicates that these jets could behave like a giant vortex with a diameter of up to four times that of Earth, and some 900 kilometers in height,\u201d explains co-author Bilal Benmahi, also of the Laboratoire d\u2019Astrophysique de Bordeaux. \u201cA vortex of this size would be a unique meteorological beast in our Solar System,\u201d Cavali\u00e9 adds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe most spectacular result is the presence of strong jets, with speeds of up to 400 meters per second, which are located under the aurorae near the poles,\u201d says Cavali\u00e9. These wind speeds, equivalent to about 1450 kilometers an hour, are more than twice the maximum storm speeds reached in Jupiter\u2019s Great Red Spot and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120662","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}