No one is clear about what is inside Jupiter. We know it is a gas giant. It is not clear that there is rock in the depths. But the Juno Mission does not stop opening questions, rather than giving closed answers. Now it offers us an infernal photograph of its south pole, where in yellow the hottest areas from its interior are appreciated. The darkest ones are the ones with the most opaque clouds and let the least escape. What happens inside him so that his atmosphere behaves like this? Because another conclusion is that inside Jupiter, in its entrails, there are also winds. No less than 3,000 kilometers deep, below the level of their clouds. They are more opaque clouds and they let less escape. What happens inside him so that his atmosphere behaves like this?
We have seen many times that Jupiter with the striped cloud surface, with its characteristic eye, which is nothing but a huge storm that has lasted 300 years. But that is only 1% of its entire mass. Apparently, according to another study there could be a fluid of hydrogen and helium that, in reality, behaves in its rotation like a solid.
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By: Alejandro Sebastián Von Heguer, National University of Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires.
Source: Juno probe, NASA.
Kindness: To Professor Alberto Adriani for accessing the interview for Astrophysics 2.0
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