The Mystery of Jupiter's Ever-Changing Stripes May Finally Be Solved

Tigers may not change their stripes, but Jupiter sure does.

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"It is possible to get wavelike motions in a planetary magnetic field which are called torsional oscillations,""The exciting thing is that when we calculated the periods of these torsional oscillations, they corresponded to the periods that you see in the infrared radiation on Jupiter."From a distance, Jupiter appears as serene as a sunrise of pale creams and burnt caramels. These darker stripes are known as belts, the paler ones as zones.

Yet Jupiter's weather is so very different from that on Earth that it's impossible to extrapolate what one planet does onto the other. What's more, Jupiter has cyclic variations in its clouds linked to variations observed in infrared data from 50 kilometers below the surface that left scientists puzzled..

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