While the storm rages on, the size of the spot is shrinking.
The Great Red Spot was thought to be a storm shaped as a flat"pancake," according to Scott Bolton, principal investigator of NASA's Juno mission and director of the space science and engineering division at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio.
Scientists had believed the depth of the storm and the planet's weather layer would be constrained to depths where sunlight can penetrate or water and ammonia are expected to condense -- the planet's cloud level. However, the storm wasn't a shallow meteorological feature, the researchers found. The Great Red Spot is deeply rooted, but the team found it's still shallower than the zonal jets that power the storm, which extend to depths approaching 1,864 miles .
When Juno observed the cyclones five years later using the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper, it found the storms stayed in the same location. Those circulation cells in both of Jupiter's hemispheres share similar characteristics to Earth's Ferrel cells, which are the wind circulation patterns in the mid-latitudes of the Northern and Southern hemispheres. Those cells have a large influence on our planet's climate, Duer said.
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