====== Jupiter - atmospheric heating ======

The low to mid-latitudes of Jupiter's atmosphere have been found to have a temperature of   around 800ºK - which is 600ºK warmer than can be accounted for by solar heating. The apparent anomaly was discovered in the mid 1970's (See: [[https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/atsc/30/4/1520-0469_1973_030_0718_ottotj_2_0_co_2.xml| Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences]] Vol.30, issue 4). Leading astronomers to the use of the term "energy crisis" to describe the problem.

>The temperatures of giant-planet upper atmospheres at mid to low latitudes are measured to be hundreds of degrees warmer than simulations based on solar heating alone can explain. __Modelling studies that focus on additional sources of heating have been unable to resolve this major discrepancy."__\\ \\ Source :  [[https://www.nature.com/articles/nature18940|Heating of Jupiter’s upper atmosphere above the Great Red Spot]] in //Nature//, July 2016

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Also see (//N Y Times//, 27th July 2016) [[http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/28/science/jupiter-great-red-spot.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fscience&_r=0|Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Is Also Very Hot]]

>No one has quite worked out how you distribute that energy from the polar regions down to the Equator."

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