jupiter's great red spot

[Big_John]

Jupiter isn't all gas. The atmosphere may be so thick that the land mass has little effect on the storm. Anyways there was a probe that was sent there and it got to spend a whole minute on the ground, before the atmospheric conditions fried the probe.

i did not say jupiter was all gas, i said that it lacked landmasses, which it does. underneath the miles and miles of clouds, there's a liquid hydrogen ocean, and under that there's a liquid metallic hydrogen layer. the core is some combination of iron/rock.

in any case, yes, even if jupiter had 'landmasses' on the hydrogen oceans, they would be too far below the coulds to have much of an effect on the storms (depending on their relief, of course).

btw, what probe are you talking about? jupiter has no surface to sit on. and there's no way the galileo probe got down to the hydrogen ocean.. it would have succumb to the pressure, heat, and radiation before that.

Yes. Then isn't it true that most gas gaints planetary rotations are fractions of our own? If I remember reading(which I rarely do ) then most of the gaseous planets' days are fractional to our own.

Again, please correct me if I'm wrong. Bleh. Currently I am learning more through the Org than in university. Pathetic, I know.

i'm not sure about the correlation between distance from the sun and rotational speed, but the gas giants do have shorter days than earth. jupiter and saturn are about 10 hours, neptune and uranus are around 15 hours, iirc. pluto's is quite a bit longer though, like 7 days or something.