Jupiter's Little Red Spot Growing Stronger

[RyanJ]

A few months ago a new from appeared on Jupiter and scientists all around the world have been watching it progress and develop in hopes it would lead to insights of how the Great Red Spot originally formed. The Little Red Spot is gaining strength and its wind speed is increasing although scientists have no idea why at this time.

 

http://www.physorg.com/news79713185.html

 

-- Ryan Jones

[Sayonara]

It is because the monolith has entered the Jovian atmosphere, and has begun to reproduce.

[[Tycho?]]

It is because the monolith has entered the Jovian atmosphere, and has begun to reproduce.

 

Sweeeeet.

[Super Genius]

Could it be since Jupiter is a Jovian planet, and so it is completely gas and so once the wind picks up speed, it will continue to go on faster.

[Sequence]

It's interesting either way. What's the limit of the speed of the wind? It can't keep getting faster forever can it?

[insane_alien]

it won't keep getting faster and faster, there is friction between the gases, if left long enough it will all slow down to a stop(or at least laminar flow)

[weknowthewor]

I have the detaila as such :

 

 

The Great Red Spot is a great anti-cyclonic (high pressure) storm akin to a hurricane on Earth, but it is enormous (three Earths would fit within its boundaries) and it has persisted for at least the 400 years that humans have observed it through telescopes. Since it is anti-cyclonic in Jupiter's Southern hemisphere, the rotation is counterclockwise, with a period of about 6 days. (A hurricane in Earth's Southern hemisphere rotates clockwise because it is a low pressure system.) The clouds associated with the Spot appear to be about 8 km above neighboring cloud tops.