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Jupiter's eastward jet at 24 • N, which formerly had the fastest winds on the planet, has maintained a less extreme speed of ∼135 m/s since 1991, carrying a series of long-lived vortices at 125 m/s. In 2002-2003, as the albedo of the adjacent North Temperate Belt increased, the tracks of the vortices accelerated slightly, and they had disappeared by 2005. In 2005, small tracers had a mean speed of 146.4 (±0.9) m/s, significantly faster than the previous mean speed of the jet, suggesting that the jet peak itself has accelerated at cloud-top level, and that the jet is beginning to return to the super-fast state. These changes may resemble the even greater transformations occurring in the equatorial jet of Saturn.

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Author

John H. Rogers; Hans-Jörg Mettig; Damian Peach

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier Inc.; Elsevier BV; Oxford University Press (OUP) (ISSN 0019-1035)

Published

2006

Language

EN

Field

Physics and Astronomy (Physical Sciences)