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CTOnews.com, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) astronomers have detected a much stronger-than-expected strong jet stream (jet stream), even more than a Category 5 hurricane, in pictures of Jupiter taken by the James Webb Space Telescope.

CTOnews.com note: jet stream (jet) refers to the narrow and strong wind belt, which is an important feature of the atmospheric circulation. The jet belt observed on the weather chart bends and extends thousands of kilometers around the earth from west to east, with a horizontal width of about thousands of meters and a vertical thickness of several thousand to more than ten kilometers.

Reports say the jet zone extends 3000 miles (4800 kilometers) at a speed of 320mph (515km / h), almost twice the wind of the clouds below, or twice the speed of a Category 5 hurricane on Earth. ravaging Jupiter in a powerful and decadent posture.

Weber Telescope's early scientific project, led by astronomer Imke de Pater of the University of California, Berkeley, and astronomer Thierry Fouchet of the Paris Observatory, aims to take pictures of Jupiter every 10 hours (one day of Jupiter), each of which can detect small changes in the characteristics of Jupiter's atmosphere at different heights.

Hueso, R., S á nchez-Lavega, A., Fouchet, T. et al. An intense narrow equatorial jet in Jupiter's lower stratosphere observed by JWST. Nat Astron (2023). Https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-023-02099-2

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