Jupiter’s Great Red Spot – a hurricane three times bigger than Earth – is blasting the planet’s upper atmosphere with heat, astronomers have found. Using measurements from an infrared telescope in Hawaii, a UK and US team found evidence for temperatures as high as 1,500C – hundreds of degrees warmer than anywhere else on the planet. They suggest the hotspot is created by thunderous sound waves “breaking” in the thin upper reaches of the atmosphere.
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot ‘roars with heat’
