Every time i see the Juno images of Jupiter, i have to remind myself it's _NOT_ CGI. The detail is astounding- real images of a real planet in space _right now!_
The wildest thing about the Great Red Spot to me is the fact that it appears to be shrinking and fading and may completely disappear, or at least be indistinguishable from any other storm in a few decades. Which means that the single most notable thing about Juipter other than it's size is likely just a happenstance of WHEN we noticed it. Which is wild to think about. Will another Red Spot appear after this one fades? Or will it start growing again after diminishing to a certain size? Is it cyclic? Or it is a once in a galactic lifetime occurence? And if its a one-off... what started it? Did a planet-sized moon collide with Jupiter and stir up this vortex in its wake?
The wildest thing about the Great Red Spot to me is the fact that it has not disappeared. The Great Red Spot is basically a persistent anticyclonic storm that has lasted for at least 340 years.
Fascinating, and wonderfully explained! Also, on a personal note, thank you so much for making a point of including outtakes at the end of your video. It is so wonderfully comforting to know that extraordinarily smart people also have days when words are hard. :)
She reminds me of a good friend of my mother. This friend, like Dr. Becky, was very smart yet easygoing and laid back. She went on to become an environmental lawyer and federal official in the U.S.
Dr. Becky: "Juiper's Great Red Spot is possibly one of the most recognisable features of all the planets in the solar system." Saturn: "My rings are still #1, right?" Dr. Becky: "Of course, you're still my favourite."
I love your honesty and sharing your bloopers. You are so down to earth and help us understand these scientific pricipals more easily with your friendly and real personality. You are sooo right, words ARE hard. Love your videos and I'm working through your "10 Things you should know about space". Enjoying the read.
Hi Dr. Becky I just wanted to take a moment to thank you for the great content you create. I'm a new fan of your channel, and I always enjoy watching such videos. You're so informative, and engaging, and I am learning something new, I love that, can't ever have enough. I am watched your video on Jupiter, and think it'd fantastic. You're doing an amazing job explaining the topic in a way that's easy to enjoy, and I found myself lovin' it. Thank you for taking the time to create such high-quality content. I'm glad that I found your channel from my Reddit request, and I can't wait to see what you create as we go. Keep up the great work! I'm a music producer and also own an IT company and help NASA, etc. recover very badly damaged data. Sincerely, Bruce
Thanks, Dr. Becky! In another life I would like to have been an astronomer or astrophysicist. Since my trajectory has been very different than that, I really appreciate your generosity in sharing your knowledge and expertise with us in layperson terms. Your enthusiasm and educational approach to how you present is a real treat!. Again, thank you and thank you very much. :-)
Chemistry with Dr Becky. Well done to those who tried to recreate conditions on Jupiter in the lab. If you have ever dealt with either hydrogen sulphide or ammonia full stop, there's a health and safety rep going crazy and dictating how you work with them.. for good reason
I always just assumed it was because of the ammonium hydrosulfide... It's reddish in both liquid and gaseous state, and due to it being slightly denser than all the other crap floating around in those clouds, the moment you start pooling it in from something like an anti-cyclone, the storm will take on a red color. Though up close, those clouds would probably be much closer to a yellow color if you fly straight into it.
That sounds entirely plausible. But we can't actually accept it as the answer without data showing that that is, in fact, happening, which we don't have right now. The phosphorous answer also sounded plausible until it was put to the test of observation.
I think the driving force behind the red spot remains hidden deep. The red spot appears to be a reaction to something. Just another unknown natural process. I love it.
I think it's a lobe of heat upwelling from pretty deep trained up by surrounding zones of convection. Once it reaches the surface the atmospheric currents spin the affected gases. In all likelihood, it does have a lifespan and so won't be there forever.
Possibly it is not due to any specific molecule, but molecular rearrangement itself that occurs on the edges of the red spot. Molecular rearrangement gives of light in the infrared. Lighter elements are fed into the plasmoid along the edges and rearranged into molecules, those molecules into more complex molecules, due to the vibrational energy along the edges spiraling into the plasmoid. But, due to an increased density and increased resonant frequency at the center of the plasmoid, AKA the Red Spot, its actually emits a color that is blueshifted into the visible range, much like the magnetic flux storage at the center of a galaxy emits a color blueshifted into the gamma, but gets its vibrational energy from the plasma ring current of the galaxy.
Your videos are incredible, Dr. Smethurst, so thank you for sharing your expertise. I recently watched a Voyager documentary which claimed that the GRS, as an anti-cyclone, was actually revealing levels of atmosphere much lower than the high clouds. That was interesting to me because the photos from the impact of Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter in the mid-90's also seemed to penetrate into reddish layers of the atmosphere. Are these layers from the GRS and the gashes of Shoemaker-Levy 9 related, or of comparable depths? By the way, I've been doing very ameture astrophotography for the last year and a half, and Jupiter is such an interesting target because of its beautiful atmospheric dynamism. Anyway, thanks so much again for your brilliant videos!
I'm always just totally fascinated by the topics you talk about and your so ruddy clever and describe things like graphs with understand ability. You put those graphs in front of me it would take me a week to understand properly.
In the early 80's Carl Sagan showed during a TV documentary the prevailing at that time theories for the red color. It was some time after the Voyager's flyby
?can it be the size of particles in nanoscale that reflect different spectrum of light but made from the same stuff ?what about the cristaile structure like graphite or diamond made from carbon but different color ?or is it just iron oxide mountain like on mars because of the shape
Amazing content. Big fan! Would it be possible to revert the white and black on the paper images you show? That way it won't get too bright on the eyes.
i'm very late to this one. sometimes i'm not in the mood for a certain type/genre/creator of video when it pops up in my feed. however, while watching i did experience some Déjà Vû. at about minute 5:25 when you started explaining the 2nd option. so that was weird. and the Déjà Vû i experienced was that of a memory of a hypothesis i came up with to explain Jupiter's Big Red Dog. i mean DOT! and that is: what if it's all 3? and also by the end of the video i came up with an explanation for how the Chromophores from NH3 & C2H2 could be replenished. and that is: shedding from one of Jupiters -moons.- i mean: Natural Satellites. probably (googling googling googling) after a brief google session, i have found the name of the moon! Io! the innermost moon of Jupiter. atmospheric shedding from Io is what replenished the Chromophores. perhaps the atmospheric shedding has slowed down over the decades? leading to the deep red color turn into a sad pale brown. :'( so, i'm extremely excited to see the data from the JUNO Mission! also, fun fact: Callisto is my favorite Jovian object! this is because i think it looks absolutely gorgeous. it's, in my opinion, the second most gorgeous object in the solar system. right behind the Earth herself!
3:20 I propose sending a telescope to orbit or land on a moon of Jupiter for a LOOOONG term visible light study of Jupiter, like lets spend as much as we did on JWST please. We can call it the Becky 1 Telescope (named "1" because we'll definitely need a Becky 2 sent up for Saturn next)
Hello Dr Becky. Your site is grate. I have a question for you. They have found a galaxy in the beginning of our universe. 300 millions years after the big bang? Coud it be a galaxy coming from a other universe. So two universe overlapping . I send the same question too M Anton.
After Earth, Jupiter is my favorite planet. When I was a teen in Mississippi in the 70s, I told my sister all I wanted for Christmas was the book "Jupiter" by Isaac Asimov. If anyone's curious, you need to read these two Jupiter short stories: "A Meeting with Medusa" by Arthur C. Clarke and "Victory Unintentional" by Isaac Asimov, which is one of his more amusing stories.
Have we tried collecting and comparing data from the edge of the spot so that we can see if there are any elements in there that are reacting with it to give a huge concentrated red spot?
i think alot of us would love to see a react video to nightwish's the greatest show on earth music video by steffix on youtube. your science input would be amazing to hear you elaborate or speculate. you rock dr. becky
After watching Shumaker-Levy I’m convinced the spot is from a small moon that crashed into it, and I suppose the red may come from elements from that moon
It would also make sense if the red color comes from a deep lake of chemicals within jupiter, which are welling up following the path of the impactor. And either that lake is being depleted, or the lowering activity of the storm is causing the color to fade.
Beautifully presented. What will be the next Space Mystery the Dr. Becky discusses. Maybe she could start a micro series on this tangent. The adopted term Creme Brule just says how much astronomers take a bite out of science.
Great vídeo! Keep up the Amazônia work! I am trying to Find a New job at this Tiny town called Ceres(dwarf planet) and this very complicated, anyway great red spot right here Huge storm!
Shumaker Levy 9 hit just below the great red spot in July of 1992. Maybe that contributed to its turning brown? Maybe if another comet hit near the spot it may produce the Crystal Gail Effect and turn that brown eye blue.
I read once and correct me please if this is wrong, that lightning in the atmosphere of Jupiter likely causes carbon deposits that sink and eventually become compressed into a diamond as they continue to sink, so in some sense at some depth its likely raining diamonds?
Is there no idea of solid surface features deep down which direct the atmospheric swirls? Where we have regular recurring atmospheric patterns here, they have formative permanent shapes - Gulf of Mexico, gulf stream, gulf stream drift, for example, producing repeated Atlantic frontal shapes. Is there a Great Red Spot mountain range, down below? Or curve-edged depression, so that we are looking at the top of the solar system's biggest tornado?
We are also told that the Great Red Spot is always in the same place. In the same place relative to what? It has always made me think that Jupiter isn't made of gas, but must have some substantial feature like a mountain, and the GRS is above that feature.
We got sunlight coming in and getting reflected coming out of the giant red spot. Wouldn't there be a double absorption pattern overlapping from high layers going in and deeper layers going out? How many gas layers is there to absorb the incoming light from the sun?
Thank you, Dr. Becky, good question. Far larger than the earth, localized, not dispersed or mixed with the rest of the atmosphere for as long as we have been observing Jupiter…and now it’s changing color from red to brown. Will the color change turn out to be permanent or periodic? Interesting stuff.
Has it been consistently getting browner since it was first observed? Or is it a back and forth change? (Also while trying to look up the answer, I learned that I didn't know who first described the spot.)
Probably made of making relative-timing probability. 0-1-2-ness Singularity-point positioning tends to form vortices of nodal-vibrational vortices in a general holographic time-timing matrix of e-Pi-i sync-duration resonances.., but Chemistry is what we think we can interpret and apply to good Sciencing.
Phase change relating to pressure affecting absorption. (There's been some experiments that show pressure or changes in pressure does affect it.) Cyclones are usually indicative of a low pressure cell. So it's not chemistry alone, there's a little more to it. On the scale of Jupiter, it's plenty enough to be observable. That's my best guess.
Very interesting As an Amateur Astronomer, i have Been Tracking The Storm On Jupiter since 2 years. If you Look at Images of Jupiter taken on 2021 to today, There is A Massive Difference between the shape of The Great Red spot and and Cloud Belts! Loved the video! 👏
couldnt it just be that a large enough comet or kuiper belt object hit Jupiter to create the storm? 1) We need large quantities of ammonia + acetylene 2) The color is fading 3) The spot is shrinking If a comet or icy object hit ... 1) they are rich in ammonia and have been shown to have hydrocarbons like acetylene 2 - 3) it could also help explain why the storm is both losing color and shrinking if the source of energy and material was external rather than internal Might be testable by looking for kuiper-belty ratios of methane/ammonia/hydrocarbons in the spot that hypothetical creme brule layer
Could the source be some impact of a massive asteroid which heavy particles got to upper atmosphere because of heat air streams, then it is dissolving over a time so the concentration is lowering and the spot is changing color. Sometimes it could be simple even it seems a mystery.
Laser distance depth measurements and material sampling on the next sat would probably be a good idea so you can cut through all the particulate debris. Webbed plot mapping the contour of the surface might be an interesting idea. Hopefully theirs not a whole lot of combustible material in it's path. Hmm, how to utilize the magnetic field itself to also plot map 🤔.
Could the red spot (like the other spots on Jupiter´s surface) be the remnant of a smaller planetary collision of one of its moons? And the red spot activated sulfur ?
I've often wondered if, when someone says "It smells like rotten eggs" have they ever actually smelled rotten eggs? I'm nearly 60 years old, and I don't recall ever smelling them. It just doesn't seem like something that the majority of the population would have experienced. Thanks for another great video Dr. Becky.
@@ge2623 Jupiter is a famous holiday resort for intergalactic chickens... I've seen the brochure and it looks great. It must however be noted that chickens are not the only animals to lay eggs. Jupiter could well be full of other birds or even crocodiles. 😁
I suppose that's a good point. It's also a smell associated with fossil fuel production (oil wells and refineries). And sometimes an illness can cause one to belch some.
I've had the misfortune to smell rotten eggs twice in my life and there is an overwhelming urge to get the hell out of there fast; truly horrendous. PS why did the chicken cross Jupiter?
Maybe the color doesn't come from pigments at all. Like the coloration of hummingbirds, the color could come from scattering off of specific sizes and shapes of, in this case, particles or droplets. The cyclonic nature of the storm might sort the particles into a size that results in a red color.
Since it’s changing from red to brownish. Does that mean it’s chemical composition is changing or that it’s the same chemicals just combined differently. Or nobody knows?
I would like to hazard a guess: Iron Oxide from a massive iron meteorite impact? It's slowly rusting over time and the chemical process of the corrosion is adding a bit of heat to the atmosphere which is strong enough to create a high pressure zone. That's the best I've got.
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Every time i see the Juno images of Jupiter, i have to remind myself it's _NOT_ CGI. The detail is astounding- real images of a real planet in space _right now!_
Well, right then. But yes, we are starting to get better at all this.
The wildest thing about the Great Red Spot to me is the fact that it appears to be shrinking and fading and may completely disappear, or at least be indistinguishable from any other storm in a few decades. Which means that the single most notable thing about Juipter other than it's size is likely just a happenstance of WHEN we noticed it. Which is wild to think about. Will another Red Spot appear after this one fades? Or will it start growing again after diminishing to a certain size? Is it cyclic? Or it is a once in a galactic lifetime occurence? And if its a one-off... what started it? Did a planet-sized moon collide with Jupiter and stir up this vortex in its wake?
Jupiter is gonna go through an identity crisis after it grows out of its "Great Red Spot" phase.
I think your theory about a moon collision could be what caused it. The shrinking is the giant wound healing. I wonder if it will disappear
The same is true of Saturn's rings
It is pretty obvious it's the result of turbulent flow
The wildest thing about the Great Red Spot to me is the fact that it has not disappeared.
The Great Red Spot is basically a persistent anticyclonic storm that has lasted for at least 340 years.
I always love the sense of scale in space: "larger than the earth" ... "isolate the light from that small area"
Ok, isolate the light from that small solid angle.
Fascinating, and wonderfully explained!
Also, on a personal note, thank you so much for making a point of including outtakes at the end of your video. It is so wonderfully comforting to know that extraordinarily smart people also have days when words are hard. :)
I love seeing updates in astronomy, it is so nice to see all the things we are learning!
Love the content and look forward to each new, well organized info dump you give us! Keep up the great work! It's greatly appreciated!
I just love dr Becky’s voice. It’s contagiously enthusiastic. Cheers me up every time
She reminds me of a good friend of my mother. This friend, like Dr. Becky, was very smart yet easygoing and laid back. She went on to become an environmental lawyer and federal official in the U.S.
Dr. Becky: "Juiper's Great Red Spot is possibly one of the most recognisable features of all the planets in the solar system."
Saturn: "My rings are still #1, right?"
Dr. Becky: "Of course, you're still my favourite."
could be a micro fusion process we simply do not know enough about Jupiter
I say the face on Mars has them both beat.
uranus has rings too
@@harrisonplott4674 yeah I know brown ones🤣🤣🤣
I love your honesty and sharing your bloopers. You are so down to earth and help us understand these scientific pricipals more easily with your friendly and real personality. You are sooo right, words ARE hard. Love your videos and I'm working through your "10 Things you should know about space". Enjoying the read.
Hi Dr. Becky
I just wanted to take a moment to thank you for the great content you create. I'm a new fan of your channel, and I always enjoy watching such videos. You're so informative, and engaging, and I am learning something new, I love that, can't ever have enough.
I am watched your video on Jupiter, and think it'd fantastic. You're doing an amazing job explaining the topic in a way that's easy to enjoy, and I found myself lovin' it. Thank you for taking the time to create such high-quality content.
I'm glad that I found your channel from my Reddit request, and I can't wait to see what you create as we go. Keep up the great work!
I'm a music producer and also own an IT company and help NASA, etc. recover very badly damaged data.
Sincerely,
Bruce
Thanks, Dr. Becky! In another life I would like to have been an astronomer or astrophysicist. Since my trajectory has been very different than that, I really appreciate your generosity in sharing your knowledge and expertise with us in layperson terms. Your enthusiasm and educational approach to how you present is a real treat!. Again, thank you and thank you very much. :-)
Chemistry with Dr Becky. Well done to those who tried to recreate conditions on Jupiter in the lab. If you have ever dealt with either hydrogen sulphide or ammonia full stop, there's a health and safety rep going crazy and dictating how you work with them.. for good reason
I always just assumed it was because of the ammonium hydrosulfide... It's reddish in both liquid and gaseous state, and due to it being slightly denser than all the other crap floating around in those clouds, the moment you start pooling it in from something like an anti-cyclone, the storm will take on a red color. Though up close, those clouds would probably be much closer to a yellow color if you fly straight into it.
That sounds entirely plausible. But we can't actually accept it as the answer without data showing that that is, in fact, happening, which we don't have right now. The phosphorous answer also sounded plausible until it was put to the test of observation.
Never thought about this question. Great video and research. Thank you.
I love the Bloopers reel at the end. that is exactly how i felt when recording my video today. Glad I am not alone. keep up the great work!
Bloopers are super funny 🤣⛳
A new video on my birthday - now that was a nice surprise. AND using creme brule in a serious scientific way. Great content, as always!
Thanks Dr Becky. It's always a pleasure and always very well done.
14:20 We should gold plate Dr. Becky's expression "Space is hard and words are harder."
dr becky i watch all your videos and I really love them all.
Thank you for another excellent explanatory video.
I think the driving force behind the red spot remains hidden deep. The red spot appears to be a reaction to something. Just another unknown natural process. I love it.
Maybe something crashed into it?
@@michaelpettersson4919 The comet looked cool crashing into it. I would love to have seen what made a scar like the red spot.
@@michaelpettersson4919 A planet-sized something might stir up that much energy. Wild to think about.
I think it's a lobe of heat upwelling from pretty deep trained up by surrounding zones of convection. Once it reaches the surface the atmospheric currents spin the affected gases. In all likelihood, it does have a lifespan and so won't be there forever.
I'm guessing it absorbed one of its moons
Amazing as always... Thumbnail has a unsovled spelling error 😂 Thanks
Possibly it is not due to any specific molecule, but molecular rearrangement itself that occurs on the edges of the red spot. Molecular rearrangement gives of light in the infrared. Lighter elements are fed into the plasmoid along the edges and rearranged into molecules, those molecules into more complex molecules, due to the vibrational energy along the edges spiraling into the plasmoid.
But, due to an increased density and increased resonant frequency at the center of the plasmoid, AKA the Red Spot, its actually emits a color that is blueshifted into the visible range, much like the magnetic flux storage at the center of a galaxy emits a color blueshifted into the gamma, but gets its vibrational energy from the plasma ring current of the galaxy.
Love your delivery and the explanations.
Great video! So much information, so clearly presented.
Thanks Angela!
@@DrBecky How deep can we get inside Jupiter if we descend through the "eye of the storm"?
As I lay here in my neck stretching device I am blown away how well you explain such an extremely complicated subject. Thankyou
Fascinating indeed! Thanks, dr. Becky! 😊
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Your videos are incredible, Dr. Smethurst, so thank you for sharing your expertise. I recently watched a Voyager documentary which claimed that the GRS, as an anti-cyclone, was actually revealing levels of atmosphere much lower than the high clouds. That was interesting to me because the photos from the impact of Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter in the mid-90's also seemed to penetrate into reddish layers of the atmosphere. Are these layers from the GRS and the gashes of Shoemaker-Levy 9 related, or of comparable depths? By the way, I've been doing very ameture astrophotography for the last year and a half, and Jupiter is such an interesting target because of its beautiful atmospheric dynamism. Anyway, thanks so much again for your brilliant videos!
A fascinating mystery! Thanks for including this wonderful content about the things we _don't_ yet know 🙂
I'm always just totally fascinated by the topics you talk about and your so ruddy clever and describe things like graphs with understand ability. You put those graphs in front of me it would take me a week to understand properly.
Possibly contains similar types of aerosols as is found in Titans atmosphere? Giving it a similar color?
In the early 80's Carl Sagan showed during a TV documentary the prevailing at that time theories for the red color. It was some time after the Voyager's flyby
Thanks Dr Becky, great video as always.
?can it be the size of particles in nanoscale that reflect different spectrum of light but made from the same stuff
?what about the cristaile structure like graphite or diamond made from carbon but different color
?or is it just iron oxide mountain like on mars because of the shape
Amazing content. Big fan!
Would it be possible to revert the white and black on the paper images you show? That way it won't get too bright on the eyes.
I would think that the enormous gravity of Jupiter would have some effect that could be very hard to replicate here on Earth.
You explained light spectrometer so well. Goodness...
i'm very late to this one. sometimes i'm not in the mood for a certain type/genre/creator of video when it pops up in my feed. however, while watching i did experience some Déjà Vû. at about minute 5:25 when you started explaining the 2nd option. so that was weird. and the Déjà Vû i experienced was that of a memory of a hypothesis i came up with to explain Jupiter's Big Red Dog. i mean DOT!
and that is: what if it's all 3? and also by the end of the video i came up with an explanation for how the Chromophores from NH3 & C2H2 could be replenished. and that is: shedding from one of Jupiters -moons.- i mean: Natural Satellites. probably (googling googling googling) after a brief google session, i have found the name of the moon! Io! the innermost moon of Jupiter. atmospheric shedding from Io is what replenished the Chromophores. perhaps the atmospheric shedding has slowed down over the decades? leading to the deep red color turn into a sad pale brown. :'(
so, i'm extremely excited to see the data from the JUNO Mission!
also, fun fact: Callisto is my favorite Jovian object! this is because i think it looks absolutely gorgeous. it's, in my opinion, the second most gorgeous object in the solar system. right behind the Earth herself!
Spell checking titles is important too.
That's the spot where Achilles finally stabs Jupiter.
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Oh wait, I'm in the wrong class.
thanks Dr Becky!
14:18 Quote of the week right there.
"Space is hard, words harder"
3:20 I propose sending a telescope to orbit or land on a moon of Jupiter for a LOOOONG term visible light study of Jupiter, like lets spend as much as we did on JWST please. We can call it the Becky 1 Telescope (named "1" because we'll definitely need a Becky 2 sent up for Saturn next)
the JWST cost $10 billion, which is only $30.00 from each USA Citizen. I can afford another $30 bucks, lets do it!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and your positive energy 🙏🌎
Hello Dr Becky. Your site is grate. I have a question for you. They have found a galaxy in the beginning of our universe. 300 millions years after the big bang? Coud it be a galaxy coming from a other universe. So two universe overlapping . I send the same question too M Anton.
Both Mam. The colours that they are. Or the colours that it is both work here in my World. I am reading your book and it is packed with great info.
After Earth, Jupiter is my favorite planet. When I was a teen in Mississippi in the 70s, I told my sister all I wanted for Christmas was the book "Jupiter" by Isaac Asimov.
If anyone's curious, you need to read these two Jupiter short stories: "A Meeting with Medusa" by Arthur C. Clarke and "Victory Unintentional" by Isaac Asimov, which is one of his more amusing stories.
Two thumbs up for Clarke’s “A Meeting with Medusa”!
Have we tried collecting and comparing data from the edge of the spot so that we can see if there are any elements in there that are reacting with it to give a huge concentrated red spot?
i think alot of us would love to see a react video to nightwish's the greatest show on earth music video by steffix on youtube.
your science input would be amazing to hear you elaborate or speculate.
you rock dr. becky
It's a mixture of vinegar, tomato puree, salt and other spices: Ketchup.
After watching Shumaker-Levy I’m convinced the spot is from a small moon that crashed into it, and I suppose the red may come from elements from that moon
It would also make sense if the red color comes from a deep lake of chemicals within jupiter, which are welling up following the path of the impactor. And either that lake is being depleted, or the lowering activity of the storm is causing the color to fade.
Love hearing you saying 'creme brulé' with the american accent ;) (I am french). Thank you for your very interesting astronomical channel.
Hope your day gets better ! 💐
Everyone should buy your book !
Surprised at what I learned about Eddington.
Just love your straight take on history 🥳
Beautifully presented. What will be the next Space Mystery the Dr. Becky discusses. Maybe she could start a micro series on this tangent.
The adopted term Creme Brule just says how much astronomers take a bite out of science.
Raging maelstrom of blood oozing up from the pulsating flesh core of the sentient planet wounded during the last great planetary rebellion.
I'm 43 and so old that I remember when the storm was 3 earths wide. Or maybe I've mixed that up.
came here only to tell there is a typo in thumbnail as unsovled mystery, but I may also watch the clip entirely
Great vídeo! Keep up the Amazônia work! I am trying to Find a New job at this Tiny town called Ceres(dwarf planet) and this very complicated, anyway great red spot right here Huge storm!
Amazing Work! ❤ (correction) this keyboard iPad config should be more efficient 😢
Shumaker Levy 9 hit just below the great red spot in July of 1992. Maybe that contributed to its turning brown? Maybe if another comet hit near the spot it may produce the Crystal Gail Effect and turn that brown eye blue.
Could it be pressure related? Did they test the chemicals they were making under the pressures found on Jupiter?
I read once and correct me please if this is wrong, that lightning in the atmosphere of Jupiter likely causes carbon deposits that sink and eventually become compressed into a diamond as they continue to sink, so in some sense at some depth its likely raining diamonds?
How much spot would the Great Spot sput if the Great Spot could sput spot?
Toenail Moon earrings! Nice.
d) all of the above?
and if it’s shrinking: was it caused by a catastrophic event? like catching a meteorite?
Is there no idea of solid surface features deep down which direct the atmospheric swirls? Where we have regular recurring atmospheric patterns here, they have formative permanent shapes - Gulf of Mexico, gulf stream, gulf stream drift, for example, producing repeated Atlantic frontal shapes. Is there a Great Red Spot mountain range, down below? Or curve-edged depression, so that we are looking at the top of the solar system's biggest tornado?
Goes to show how little we know. So much on earth we are clueless about yet we still ask questions about the universe and other planets.
Pretty impressive. Thanks for this video.
We are also told that the Great Red Spot is always in the same place. In the same place relative to what? It has always made me think that Jupiter isn't made of gas, but must have some substantial feature like a mountain, and the GRS is above that feature.
We got sunlight coming in and getting reflected coming out of the giant red spot.
Wouldn't there be a double absorption pattern overlapping from high layers going in and deeper layers going out?
How many gas layers is there to absorb the incoming light from the sun?
Thank you, Dr. Becky, good question. Far larger than the earth, localized, not dispersed or mixed with the rest of the atmosphere for as long as we have been observing Jupiter…and now it’s changing color from red to brown. Will the color change turn out to be permanent or periodic? Interesting stuff.
imagine a mission where we skim the atmosphere and sample it 🤯
How come that there are no other Great Red Spots (or smaller spots) on Jupiter?
Could the color change of the spot be due to the pressure within the anti cyclonic region changing?
You had me at Dr. Becky & Red spot 😱🍻
Has it been consistently getting browner since it was first observed? Or is it a back and forth change? (Also while trying to look up the answer, I learned that I didn't know who first described the spot.)
I think that was Galileo who first noted the great red spot.
@@amirpatel1934 Galileo? Galileo? Galileo or Figaro? Sorry for the question, but Beelzebub's devil wanted me to ask.
@@I_Don_t_want_a_handle -- Beelzebub has a devil set aside for you.
@@jondunmore4268 For me.
Probably made of making relative-timing probability.
0-1-2-ness Singularity-point positioning tends to form vortices of nodal-vibrational vortices in a general holographic time-timing matrix of e-Pi-i sync-duration resonances.., but Chemistry is what we think we can interpret and apply to good Sciencing.
Phase change relating to pressure affecting absorption. (There's been some experiments that show pressure or changes in pressure does affect it.) Cyclones are usually indicative of a low pressure cell. So it's not chemistry alone, there's a little more to it. On the scale of Jupiter, it's plenty enough to be observable. That's my best guess.
Very interesting As an Amateur Astronomer, i have Been Tracking The Storm On Jupiter since 2 years. If you Look at Images of Jupiter taken on 2021 to today, There is A Massive Difference between the shape of The Great Red spot and and Cloud Belts! Loved the video! 👏
Jupiter was my favorite object when I got my first telescope 37 years ago. The red spot and the cloud belts were far more obvious back then.
1:00 - This must have been filmed by your bloke 😀 Happy as a little girl in a park!
@Dr. Becky, as always great and informativce content, I think this introduction to Jupiter's Red spot (See timestamps xD)
couldnt it just be that a large enough comet or kuiper belt object hit Jupiter to create the storm?
1) We need large quantities of ammonia + acetylene
2) The color is fading
3) The spot is shrinking
If a comet or icy object hit ...
1) they are rich in ammonia and have been shown to have hydrocarbons like acetylene
2 - 3) it could also help explain why the storm is both losing color and shrinking if the source of energy and material was external rather than internal
Might be testable by looking for kuiper-belty ratios of methane/ammonia/hydrocarbons in the spot that hypothetical creme brule layer
Could the source be some impact of a massive asteroid which heavy particles got to upper atmosphere because of heat air streams, then it is dissolving over a time so the concentration is lowering and the spot is changing color. Sometimes it could be simple even it seems a mystery.
Thanks for the vid, @DrBecky!
Just a quick one: A tiny error slipped through; the thumbnail pic says it's an unsovled mystery instead of unsolved.
Hi Becky, I just wonder, what camera do you use? It's great :)
Sony ⍺7 iii👍
Laser distance depth measurements and material sampling on the next sat would probably be a good idea so you can cut through all the particulate debris. Webbed plot mapping the contour of the surface might be an interesting idea. Hopefully theirs not a whole lot of combustible material in it's path. Hmm, how to utilize the magnetic field itself to also plot map 🤔.
Wave harmonics to disperse the sediment might be a nice idea also if you were wanting to part those vast sea's of colors.
Great video, thankyou 👍👍👍
Could the red spot (like the other spots on Jupiter´s surface) be the remnant of a smaller planetary collision of one of its moons? And the red spot activated sulfur ?
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I've often wondered if, when someone says "It smells like rotten eggs" have they ever actually smelled rotten eggs? I'm nearly 60 years old, and I don't recall ever smelling them. It just doesn't seem like something that the majority of the population would have experienced. Thanks for another great video Dr. Becky.
Ditto. Also, I wouldn't think eggs, or for that matter, chickens would be on Jupiter.
The Dutch oven smell lol ⛳
@@ge2623 Jupiter is a famous holiday resort for intergalactic chickens... I've seen the brochure and it looks great. It must however be noted that chickens are not the only animals to lay eggs. Jupiter could well be full of other birds or even crocodiles. 😁
I suppose that's a good point.
It's also a smell associated with fossil fuel production (oil wells and refineries).
And sometimes an illness can cause one to belch some.
I've had the misfortune to smell rotten eggs twice in my life and there is an overwhelming urge to get the hell out of there fast; truly horrendous.
PS why did the chicken cross Jupiter?
If it's shrinking at a visible rate, could it be the result of some sort of collision?
I’m doing the brilliant courses right now and I swear I saw some content that you provided….or maybe I was imagining it.
Maybe the color doesn't come from pigments at all. Like the coloration of hummingbirds, the color could come from scattering off of specific sizes and shapes of, in this case, particles or droplets. The cyclonic nature of the storm might sort the particles into a size that results in a red color.
The GRS is an anti-cyclone or high-pressure system so there would theoretically be no uplift within the region of the storm.
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Since it’s changing from red to brownish. Does that mean it’s chemical composition is changing or that it’s the same chemicals just combined differently. Or nobody knows?
Thank you Becky 🙏👍
I would like to hazard a guess: Iron Oxide from a massive iron meteorite impact? It's slowly rusting over time and the chemical process of the corrosion is adding a bit of heat to the atmosphere which is strong enough to create a high pressure zone. That's the best I've got.
For a while I think in the 90s some people will calling it the GBS (great page spot,) as it had faded quite a bit.
Could an collision cause the conditions required?