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August 01, 2016

Jupiter's great red spot heats planet's upper atmosphere
Boston MA (SPX) Jul 28, 2016
Researchers from Boston University's (BU) Center for Space Physics report in Nature that Jupiter's Great Red Spot may provide the mysterious source of energy required to heat the planet's upper atmosphere to the unusually high values observed. Sunlight reaching Earth efficiently heats the terrestrial atmosphere at altitudes well above the surface - even at 250 miles high, for example, where the International Space Station orbits. Jupiter is over five times more distant from the Sun, and yet ... read more

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