Unified model describes extreme jet streams on all major planets

In our solar system, the most notable features of the giant planets – the most winds around Jepeters, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune their territories are observed. Although some of these planets run the east winds, others have a jet stream to the west. For the first time, an international team of scientists, led by the Laden Observatory and Saroon, can explain the winds on all major planets using a model.

The so -called fast -moving movements in the environment of the giant planets can play an important role in running both the jet streams to the east and the west. This is what a team of astronomers is headed by the Laden Observatory and Post Documentary Researcher, Karen Dier Millner, from the Laden Observatory and Son. This research has been published in the journal Science development.

Using global rotation models, the team found that differences in environmental depths can produce jets on Jupiter and Saturn on Saturn and jets on Uranus and Neptune. This system shows a so-called division: Under these terms, the environment can settle in one of the two stable states-or so, if the east side or the west side of the letter equates direct links between the direction of the jet and the environment depth.

The fastest winds in the solar system

For decades, scientists have been surprised by the mechanism that runs strong winds on the giant planets, with a speed between 500 and 2,000 kilometers per hour. Jet streams are the fastest winds observed in the solar system and are much higher than the normal wind speed.

In particular, the fact is that the east winds of Jupiter and Saturn move, while the jets of Uranus and Neptune fly west, it was secret. The main factors that affect rivers on these planets are the same. The planets get sunlight a little, they have moderate internal heating system and sharp rotation. There are no known forces that can explain the different directions of the air. Until now, the different directions of jet air were thought of running them through different mechanisms.

Now, the Dierce Millenner and his colleagues found that the rapidly rotating convention on the equator can serve as a “conveyor belt” on the cell surface, and running the jet on different planets both sides and west on the west. Convention is the process that rotation can carry heat inside an environment or liquid. It is believed that this is an important process through which the gas is transmitted from within the planets to the surface.

The environment across the galaxy

“We hope to show that the mechanism that we believe that working in the gas giants in Jupiter and Saturn can also explain the equatorial jets in Uranus and Neptune.” “We are passionate because eventually we have a simple, beautiful explanation of a complex trend.” Scientists are now using the spacecraft to find evidence that the proposed procedure is in the Jupiter environment.

Dier Millner hopes that their results may also apply to the planets outside our solar system. “It is very important to understand these winds because it helps us to understand the basic process that rule the environment of the planet not only in our solar system but also in the galaxy. This discovery provides us a new source to understand the planet’s environment and the diversity of climate.”