{"id":184900,"date":"2024-03-11T06:22:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T11:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/scientists-intrigued-by-jet-inside-jupiter"},"modified":"2024-03-11T06:22:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T11:22:41","slug":"scientists-intrigued-by-jet-inside-jupiter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/scientists-intrigued-by-jet-inside-jupiter","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Intrigued by Jet Inside Jupiter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-intrigued-by-jet-inside-jupiter2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jupiter is iconic, with <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/jupiter\/\" class=\"\">its swirls of water and ammonia vapor<\/a> that characterize its outer surface and its distinctive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/solar-system\/jupiters-great-red-spot-a-swirling-mystery\/\" class=\"\">Giant Red Spot<\/a>, a gigantic storm raging across its face.<\/p>\n<p>But its mysteries abound \u2014 such as Jupiter\u2019s strange and asymmetrical magnetic field, which has a strong area of magnetism in its equator called the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/images\/pia25035-mapping-jupiters-great-blue-spot\" class=\"\">Great Blue Spot<\/a>\u201d \u2014 blue because that\u2019s how it\u2019s color-coded in maps tracing the magnetic field.<\/p>\n<p>In an effort to understand the planet\u2019s magnetic field better, a team of American scientists from Harvard University, the California Institute of Technology, NASA and the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas studied an atmospheric jet \u2014 a high speed current in the gas giant\u2019s atmosphere \u2014 in the Great Blue Spot. Their finding? It\u2019s a dynamic system that fluctuates every four years or so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jupiter is iconic, with its swirls of water and ammonia vapor that characterize its outer surface and its distinctive Giant Red Spot, a gigantic storm raging across its face. But its mysteries abound \u2014 such as Jupiter\u2019s strange and asymmetrical magnetic field, which has a strong area of magnetism in its equator called the \u201cGreat [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184900","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}