AST-1002 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Water Vapor, Sulfur Dioxide, Roche Limit
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Dotted w/ ovals of white and brown. Jupiter emits approximately twice as much energy as it receives from the sun. It"s the largest planet in the solar system. The extra energy comes from radioactive elements in its core and from an overall contraction amounting to less than 10 cm per century and are confined to narrow bands of latitude. Because it rotates once every 10 hours, jupiter"s clouds are in perpetual motion. Belts - dark, reddish bands in jupiter"s cloud cover. Zones - light-colored bands in jupiter"s cloud cover. The zones are white due to ammonia vapor. These belts and zones are gases flowing eastward or westward, w/ very little. Great red spot- a large, red-orange, oval-shaped storm in jupiter"s southern north-south motion hemisphere. A hurricane-like or typhoon like storm of swirling gases. Crystals of frozen ammonia latitudes or different radial distances move at different speed. Differential rotation - the rotation of nonrigid object in which parts at different.
