Jack Birle is a breaking news reporter for the Washington Examiner. A 2022 graduate of Villanova University with majors in communication and political science, he has previous journalism experience with the Center Square and as a fellow with the National Journalism Center. He was born in Pennsylvania and grew up in Southern California.
NASA announced that a new aspect of Jupiter's atmosphere has been discovered thanks to the space agency's James Webb Space Telescope.
Scientists studying images captured by the telescope in July 2022 discovered a"narrow jet stream" near the planet's equator with winds at 320 mph. The jet stream is more than 3,000 miles wide, according to the space agency.“This is something that totally surprised us,” Ricardo Hueso, lead author of the research paper published in Nature Astronomy, said in a statement.
The discovery allows for a better understanding of how the different layers of the planet's atmosphere work with each other. The new jet stream has sustained winds twice as powerful as a Category 5 hurricane and is located 25 miles above the clouds in the planet's lower atmosphere. Other missions have looked at Jupiter’s atmosphere and detected the lower, deeper layers, where there are gigantic storms and ammonia ice clouds. Webb’s sensitive near-infrared eye reveals new detail in the higher-altitude layers, 15-30 mi above the cloud tops. pic.twitter.
Since it was launched into space, images from the telescope have shown the scale and complexity of the cosmos. The telescope has made several breakthroughs as scientists seek to understand the formation of the universe.
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