How does Jupiter’s red spot hurricane exist and continue to be present after all these years of observation? Hurricanes in Earth dissipate yet Jupiter’s does not. I don’t understand.
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Jupiter is much bigger, so the forces at work on its weather are much more intense and everything essentially works at a slower time scale. But the biggest reason is that Jupiter doesn’t have land masses, because land masses are what ultimately tends to destroy hurricanes. Hurricanes generally consistently build up energy while they are above water, and then lose it as soon as they start to hit land.
Jupiter probably does have a solid surface somewhere way down there, but it is so far down there it has absolutely no effect on the upper atmospheric levels at all.
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