Universal Vortical Singularity enlightenment on vortices of Jupiter

From the perspective of UVS that is based on unisonal vortex mechanism, the phenomenon of cloud bands on Jupiter are formed as a result of polar vortex pairs on different layers of atmosphere at different altitudes have their vortex eyes opened up to different latitudes in a torque-free precession; the atmospheres were compressed by those polar vortex pairs from the poles towards the equator. This phenomenon of cloud bands are also found in all other gaseous planets in the Solar System, as in Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Image on right is a top view of Jupiter at south pole showing circular cloud bands with the Great Red Spot among other planetary storms. See a larger high resolution image that shows in greater details for the storms and a set of vortical spokes around a vortex ring at polar region, click on the larger image to enlarge it further. Watch video clips on "The Universe S01E04 Jupiter - The Giant Planet (History Channel)", part one, two, three, four and Five.

South Pole of Jupiter

UVS qualitatively predicts that cloud bands are formed by polar vortex pairs with vortex column opened to different extents.
UVS qualitatively predicts that the Great Red Spot, ovals and other storms of Jupiter are satellite vortices of polar vortices.

Animation of rotating cloud bands on Jupiter with the Great Red Spot and other storms. (Larger full resolution image 7.51MB, might take several minutes to load.)

Based on unisonal vortex mechanism, the cloud bands of Jupiter are formed by widely opened up polar vortex of different altitude atmospheric layers. The westerly white cloud band right on the equator is on a highest visible cloud level that was formed above other cloud bands as a result of a polar vortex pair has opened up to tropical region till nearest the equator. This clearly visible white cloud band on higher altitude overlays on all lower layers of wider cloud bands formed at higher latitudes. The satellite unisonal vortices around the cloud band are the vortical spokes of the polar vortex in a crossed-section view as illustrated in the diagram below. Image on right is a polar region of Jupiter at South Pole that shows spokes in a circle arrangement within a polygonal-like cloud structure, the spokes are connected to a large oval cloud structure at the center that is almost a perfect circle.

Polar region of Jupiter at South Pole with spokes within a polygonal-like cloud structure.

Two-dimensional pictorial of a unisonal vortex with nested vortex formations in a paradigm with harmonic unisonal vortices of cyclones and anti-cyclones that interact in unison. Animations on right illustrate the fractals of vortical motion.

The chain of anti-cyclonic storms in those easterly jet streams are the compressed vortical spiral arms of unisonal vortex, the easterly jet streams are formed by these anti-cyclonic storms that have merged as a ring around the outer boundaries of Jupiter's atmospheric layers.

The effect of overlapping of wider cloud bands on lower altitude rendered the phenomenon of symmetric cloud bands pairs on both hemispheres at various latitudes, these are the exposed cloud band regions ( Click on icon to see image). There should be a vaguely visible razor-thin band right on equatorial plane formed by higher layer atmosphere that were flattened by polar vortices pair to a very thin disc, as a planetary ring. The bottom of the planetary ring that is on the surface in a thin middle region of the equatorial white cloud band rotates at a slower speed, this would drag the middle region of the equatorial white cloud band. See an external link in "Atmosphere of Jupiter".

The rotating equatorial white cloud band in Equatorial Zone at region further away from the equator on a curved planetary surface is gradually smaller in diameter therefore moves fastest by the side, and dragged in a middle region by a higher altitude razor-thin cloud band, these causes a phenomenon of butterfly-shaped dragged patterns on the westerly equatorial white cloud band, which were asymmetric anti-cyclonic satellite vortices on both hemispheres that were being stretched. From a polar view, these anti-cyclones are the vortical spiral arms of a polar unisonal vortex, they have flattened on an atmospheric surface at the Equatorial Zone, these vortical spiral arms from both hemispheres merge on around the equator and therefore render as those butterfly-shaped dragged patterns ( Click on icon to see a large image for spiral arms on Equatorial Zone in a view from North Pole of Jupiter). The vortex column at bottom of the polar vortex that form this equatorial cloud band has sank as furrow below the surface of a lower atmosphere, this down draft effect is similar to polar vortex on Earth that form a polar jet stream in lower atmosphere just below its surface.

A thin region on two sides along the equator of the equatorial white cloud band at Equatorial Zone facing the poles drives chains of smaller anti-cyclonic satellite vortices. These westerly polar jet streams on a lower altitude atmosphere drives another chain of cyclonic vortices in two exposed higher altitude regions of both hemispheres (North Equatorial Belt and South Equatorial Belt) in the brown cloud bands. Those merged cyclonic vortices on the lower atmosphere renders the phenomenon of cloud bands pair that are rotating in opposite direction; the brown cloud bands in this lower atmosphere compressed to tropical region along equator by its polar vortices would have merged many of those cyclonic vortices within it. Some cloud bands at higher latitudes also have the phenomenon of opposite rotation in easterly direction. Cloud bands on different altitudes exposed at different latitudes driven by polar vortex pairs rotating at different angular velocities and affected by chains of satellite vortices cause the phenomenon of differential rotation. See a larger image of the animation by NASA/JPL, see also an external link on "Jet streams on Earth and Jupiter". Speculating from the UVS perspective, if Jupiter rotates fast enough with a larger axial tilt such the opposite rotating cloud bands pair in its precession effect are flattened on the equatorial plane and the atmospheric matter of these cloud bands pair has managed to coalesce as a moon, this moon would be vortically revolving in retrograde rotation with its transferred angular momentum. This could explain the causality of the retrograde rotation of satellite such as Phoebe (a moon of Saturn) and how it could have evolved naturally in the vortical motion of its differential rotation. See a section on "Orbit of satellites" that illustrates the vortical motion in all celestial objects in the UVS topic on "Cosmic evolution based on the UVS model".

UVS qualitatively predicts that the retrograde rotation of satellite could be caused naturally from transferred angular momentum of vortical motion in its differential rotation.

The phenomenon of westerly cloud bands nearer to the equator appeared to be moving faster than some westerly cloud bands further from the equator was as a result of those chains of cyclonic vortices formed by jet streams at exposed higher latitudes; at the sides towards the poles the cyclonic satellite vortices were rotating in opposite westward direction would have dragged and slowed those lower altitude westerly cloud bands in exposed regions on higher latitudes. The tangential speed of a cloud band driven by a polar vortex depends directly on its atmospheric density, and the angular velocity depends on its speed and altitude and latitude. The brown cloud band region hidden directly underneath the equatorial white cloud band should be rotating toward the east at a higher angular velocity.

The phenomenon of planetary rings on Jupiter are formed as a result of multiple polar vortices of many high altitude atmosphere layers have had their vortex eyes opened to the extend that they have touched the equatorial plane, which formed as a disc shape. These atmospheric layers that have flattened as planetary rings are overlaid above the equatorial cloud band. The brown dwarf OTS 44 (image shown is artist impression) with enormous planetary rings should also be formed in such vortical manner. See a UVS topic on "Mysterious Planetary Rings" for an animated illustration on how an atmospheric layer is being opened by its polar vortices and compressed into a flat disc shape around equator.

Planetary rings of Jupiter

A brown dwarf OTS 44

Based on unisonal vortex mechanism, the Great Red Spot is an anti-cyclonic satellite vortex of a very large cyclonic unisonal polar vortex that its vortex column has opened very widely towards the equator, this polar vortex near the equator in an atmospheric layer is covered underneath a higher altitude equatorial cloud band, the optical effect renders the phenomenon of a South Equatorial Belt. Within this apparently narrow southern equatorial cloud band there are jet streams flowing in different directions, the Great Red spot is driven by an easterly jet stream that has occurred in a differential rotation (apparently is caused by a higher altitude westerly jet stream). As a result of being driven by a cyclonic polar vortex between the easterly jet stream and the westerly jet stream outside its polar vortex core, the Great Red Spot is an anti-cyclone in southern hemisphere spinning in counter clockwise direction. There were other large anti-cyclones at northern hemisphere on an easterly brown cloud band that have similar characteristics as the Great Red Spot. See a UVS topic on "Visualization of the differential rotation with Foucault's pendulum". It would be of significant interest if any of those moons is synchronized with the Great Red Spot or any of those other significant storms. See UVS topic on "A comparative analysis on stability factors for the Great Red Spot of Jupiter".

The Great Red Spot and other storms

There are other smaller storms in the atmospheres of Jupiter, these smaller storms are also satellite vortices of the polar vortexes. Depending on which side of a polar jet stream that drives these satellite vortices, these satellite vortices driven by their polar vortex could spin in any direction, they have similar characteristics like tornado on Earth that is also an atmospheric unisonal free vortex driven by a larger atmospheric free vortex.

Tidal force of Jupiter's moons would affect viscous matter on a moving Jupiter in a precession effect to spawn vortices in it. See UVS topics on "Orbit of satellites" and "Vortical motion of planetary moon" for further elucidation on vortical motion of satellite.

The different in vortex intensity of the Great Red Spot and other storms on different altitudes has resulted in different sunken atmospheric layer that causes the phenomena of a warm or cold core vortex; a different atmospheric layer with a different temperature range on a higher altitude would have filled the void in a vortex column.

Based on unisonal vortex mechanism, the phenomenon of polar aurora on Jupiter is caused by a polar vortex under influence of focused precession effect from aligned planets in a Solar System arrangement; this is similar to polar aurora on Earth. Solar system alignment effect could also affect all types of free vortex on Jupiter. See a UVS topic on "Aurora" that illustrates the phenomenon is also caused by polar vortex with glowing ionized gas. The image on far right is the polar vortex of Saturn, literally hundreds of storm clouds encircle the pole, appearing as dark spots in this infrared spectrometer thermal image. Each of these spots represents a storm, these are the harmonic unisonal vortices.

A false color image of polar aurora on Jupiter.

Polar vortex of Saturn

See UVS topics on "The fundamental of unisonal vortex mechanism" for detailed explanation on naturally occurred free vortex and "UVS model".

Glossary:

27th July 2007

A comparative analysis on stability factors for the Great Red Spot of Jupiter

The Great Red Spot is stable and may be a permanent feature of the planet, its stability could be primarily caused by orbital resonance with three Galilean moons in a Laplace resonance. However, it would require empirical evidence to ascertain if these moons in orbital resonance are the cause for the stability of this unisonal vortex in a synchronized manner. Nevertheless, based on unisonal vortex mechanism, the largely combined precession effect in a differential manner would have contributed to the stability of this storm. See a section in the Antarctica Ozone Hole that elaborates on synchronized in opposite rotation of a polar vortex with Earth's moon. This synchronized in opposite rotation phenomenon involves several very complex cognitive paradoxes. See also a topic on sunspot that elaborates on how two satellites that has a near orbital resonance could have caused lower latitude unisonal vortices to spawn and peak in a cyclical manner with a full cycle period of approximate twenty-two years. The Laplace resonance exhibited by three of the Galilean moons. The ratios in the figure are of orbital periods. Viewed from above South Pole.

Jupiter's cloud bands as viewed from above its South Pole.

The Great Red Spot suspended on the atmosphere of Jupiter driven by a westward jet stream could be synchronized in opposite rotation with these moons in orbital resonance. Evidently, through a comparative analysis that Earth-Moon precession effect can affect an atmospheric vortex on Earth, it infers that gravity perturbation by motion of the three Galilean moons in orbital resonance revolving around Jupiter could render the most significant precession effect for the the Great Red Spot to be an exceptionally stable storm. Similar to the Moon that is in a tidal locking with Earth, all Galilean moons are also tidally locked to Jupiter. A moon is tidally locked to a planet when it keeps one face towards the planet; synchronous rotation. See a UVS topic on "Solar system alignment effect".

Moons of Jupiter that are more massive and nearer to Jupiter would have greater precession effects that would affect the stability of a vortex in Jupiter than those moons that are less massive and further away. Ganymede, Europa and Io are three of the Galilean moons that are the largest and the most massive of the many moons of Jupiter, these three moons are the nearest moons to Jupiter among the four Galilean moons. The furthest Galilean moon is Callisto, although this moon can have significant precession effect on Jupiter, it is almost twice as far away from the next nearer moon to Jupiter and it is just more than one third the combined mass of the three nearer Galilean moons that are in orbital resonance. The other four moons nearer to Jupiter are tiny dwarf in size and mass when compared to these three Galilean moons that are in a Laplace resonance, would not have much gravitational influence in comparison. The rest of those further away moons are also dwarf by comparison, as a result of lesser gravitational influence to Jupiter according to the inverse-square law of gravity, these much smaller moons that are further away would therefore have the least significant precession effect on Jupiter.

From a perspective on fixed reference frame at the center of Jupiter, such that the Great Red Spot is viewed to be isolated and has an orbital period of slightly more than 9.925 hour (sidereal rotation period of Jupiter) as a result of revolving with a slight westward drift on the atmospheric layer around Jupiter, then Ganymede (at orbital peroid of 171.7 hr), Europa (85.2 hr), Io (42.5 hr) and the Great Red Spot (if the relative orbital peroid is 10.6 hr) would be in a 1:4:8:16 orbital period ratio of their orbital resonance. This is a cyclical precession effect that would have maintained the stability of this anti-cyclonic storm. (Note: No solid evidence as yet that the Great Red Spot revolves around Jupiter at a relative orbital peroid of 10.6 hour, however, this is a very likely situation by considering its slight westward drift caused by the easterly jet stream on South Equatorial Belt that could have slowed down the relative orbital period from 9.925 to 10.6 hours.)

A planetary model of Jupiter based on empirical data animating the revolving motions of its moons (such as the animation above) and also show the Great Red Spot revolving around a fixed Jupiter with the westward driving jet stream in South Equatorial Belt would be able to verify if the three Galilean moons in a Laplace resonance are the primary cause for the stability of the Great Red Spot. See a UVS topic on "A typical formation of Solar System objects that could trigger a terrestial free vortex".

UVS qualitatively predicts that the stability for the Great Red Spot of Jupiter is primarily caused by orbital resonance with the three Galilean moons that are in a Laplace resonance.

Below are some images of atmospheric vortex events with evident suggesting that external precession caused by Solar System objects in a Solar System alignment would have affected stability of the atmospheric vortex.

A huge vortical pattern had formed on open water, the Solar System arrangement at that moment of this event on on 10th Jun 2007 around 1.30 p.m. was triple alignment of Sun-Earth-Jupiter crossed aligned with Saturn-Earth-Neptune and also crossed aligned with Earth-Moon-Uranus, with Sun right on top of the reservoir at the moment of this event.		A huge cyclonic cloud was formed on lower cloud level, the Solar System arrangement at the moment of this event on 8th of July 2007 at 4.00 p.m. was planetary alignment of Saturn-Venus-Earth-Neptune with Saturn and Venus directly on top. Neptune is behind Earth and aligned with this cyclonic cloud. Its bow echoes made several furrows on surface of water in a reservoir.
Bow echo of a clear air vortex could have made this furrow on surface of water, the Solar System arrangement at the moment of this event on 13th Jun 2007 at 9:42 am was Sun-Earth-Jupiter crossed aligned with Saturn-Earth-Neptune with Moon on top of the reservoir. These images of vortical pattterns that were formed on the surface of water in a reservoir is for illustration purpose, it is not ruled out that these stablized wave patterns could be caused by seismic waves propagated from beneath the Earth's crust, seismic wave could also be caused by precession effect of a Solar System alignment. See video clips on "Acoustic water dance", "Cornstarch and vibrations", "Cornstarch at 35-55hz" and "WATER SOUND IMAGES".

~ With thanks to Valdric for showing some fabulous optical views of Jupiter with four Galilean moons on his computerized Celestron telescope.

Sep 2007

References and links:
Jupiter - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Axial tilt - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Retrograde rotation - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Phoebe - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Saturn - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Uranus - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Neptune - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jet streams on Earth and Jupiter - SPACE.com
Great Red Spot - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Precession - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Precession (Astronomy) - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Galilean moons - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Laplace resonance - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tidal locking - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Moons of Jupiter - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Orbital resonance - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tidal locking - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Synchronous rotation - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Amalthea - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Link, images and animation of Jupiter - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Video clips on "The Universe S01E04 Jupiter - The Giant Planet" - From History Channel
Video clip on "Acoustic water dance" - From Youtube by Armuotas
Video clip on "Cornstarch and vibrations" - From Youtube by nik282000
Video clip on Cornstarch at 35-55hz" - From Youtube by michaeluna
Video clip on WATER SOUND IMAGES" - From Youtube by fabriatlantide
Image of cloud band of Jupiter - NASA
Image of planetary rings of Jupiter - Selden's gallery of Celestia pictures
Image of OTS44 - Universe Today
Image of polar vortex of Saturn - Credits: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute/University of Arizona.
Image of arc shape marking on reservoir - Regina Wee

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