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Cyclones rotate in the direction similar to the rotation of the planet (counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern); anticyclones rotate in the reverse direction. However, unlike in the terrestrial atmosphere , anticyclones predominate over cyclones on Jupiter—more than 90% of vortices larger than 2000 km in ...
Atmospheric super-rotation is a phenomenon where a planet's atmosphere rotates faster than the planet itself. This behavior is observed in the atmospheres of Venus , Titan , Jupiter , and Saturn. Venus exhibits the most extreme super-rotation, with its atmosphere circling the planet in four Earth days, much faster than the planet's own rotation ...
3-hour timelapse showing rotation of Jupiter and orbital motion of the moons. Jupiter is the only planet whose barycentre with the Sun lies outside the volume of the Sun, though by 7% of the Sun's radius. [130] [131] The average distance between Jupiter and the Sun is 778 million km (5.20 AU) and it completes an orbit every 11.86 years.
In science class, we always learned that all the planets in our solar system orbit around the sun. Scientists have figured out this is not necessarily true.
1.2 why does Jupiter rotate round its axis so fast? 18 comments. 1.3 Potential. 12 comments. 1.4 Diode and clipper circuit. 4 comments. 1.5 ...
Jupiter maintains the moons' orbits via tides they raise on it and thus its rotational energy ultimately powers the system. [1] Saturn's moon Enceladus is similarly thought to have a liquid water ocean beneath its icy crust, due to tidal heating related to its resonance with Dione .
At around 600 miles wide and up to 6,000 meters (nearly four miles) deep, the Drake is objectively a vast body of water. To us, that is. To the planet as a whole, less so.
Free-floating brown dwarfs rotate faster than Jupiter and studies have inferred the presence of zonal winds. The brown dwarf 2MASS J1047+21 has a rotation period of 1.77 ± 0.04 hours and it has strong winds with speeds of 650±310 m/s proceeding eastwards.