Moist Convection Can Drive Jet Streams on All Four Giant Planets
Monday, October 13, 2008 - 15:42
in Astronomy & Space
(PhysOrg.com) -- Turbulence generated by thunderstorms can drive the multiple east-west jet streams on the giant planets - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune - and explain a long-standing conundrum concerning the puzzling differences between the innermost two planets, Jupiter and Saturn, and the outermost two, Uranus and Neptune.
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