AS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Metallic Hydrogen, Solar Wind, Great Dark Spot
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Saturn"s more subdued yellows along with the reds and tans so familiar on jupiter come from the same compounds as on jupiter; however, the lower temperatures and deeper cloud layers result in a "washing out" of distinct colour variations. All jovian planets have weather patterns with storms and winds. Neptune has one high-pressure storm seen as the. Great dark spot (analogous to the grs on jupiter). Neptune is seen in the picture here in the middle of the planet (note the wispy white clouds around the spot). Seasonal variations on jovians are not as great as might be expected because of the internal heat generated by the planets that keep them uniformly warm (or cold depending on your point of view! All jovian planets have substantial magnetic fields and magnetospheres. Io, the closest of the galilean moons to jupiter, orbits through a continuous toroid of plasma originating from the particles captured by the magnetosphere and generated from io"s volcanoes.
