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Modeling the stability of polygonal patterns of vortices at the poles of Jupiter as revealed by the Juno spacecraft
2020
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
From its pole-to-pole orbit, the Juno spacecraft discovered arrays of cyclonic vortices in polygonal patterns around the poles of Jupiter. In the north, there are eight vortices around a central vortex, and in the south there are five. The patterns and the individual vortices that define them have been stable since August 2016. The azimuthal velocity profile vs. radius has been measured, but vertical structure is unknown. Here, we ask, what repulsive mechanism prevents the vortices from
doi:10.1073/pnas.2008440117
pmid:32900956
fatcat:mirub2xbgfairfxbb3lhxg6jgm