STRONG DOWNSINK,   NOT A WHIRLPOOL

DESCRIPTION   The Giant Red Spot is a downsink. It is not a whirlpool. Whirlpools are seen in swirls down a bathtub and the funnel of a tornado. In oceon currents and rivers, a whirlpool's bottom can often be seen at shallow depths within a round-walled spinning downspout. In Jupiter the case is entirely different. Picture a hand held blender and a bowl of whipped cream, cords and streams knot and churn in different layers around a downsinking vortex, the downsink due to more rapid velocity down than rising velocity around the sides, caused by the spinning propellor at the bottom of the bowl. If the propellor is tilted, the floor of the downsink tilts, like the shifting eye of a fish. Instead of a stationary propellor stirring contents of a stationary bowl, if the whipped cream ran fast flowing past an unmoving propellor shaped obstacle, the turbo dynamics would be much the same. If the obstacle was just a mound and a northern stream flowed past slower than a second (southern) stream, the obstacle would not have to be tilted to create a sharp tilt in the visible plane of the downsink and vortex. What causes such a vortex downsinking on Jupiter. Bernouli's Principle comes to mind (fast flowing fluid creates a vacuum). Picture a large lump or obstacle below the surface in Jupiter with winds passing over at significant velocity. The vacuum created overhead would (in this scenerio) cause the atmosphere above to get sucked down in a downsink, in a vortex snaked by many variable wind speeds, unlike a whirlpool whose circular velocities smoothly accelarate as the radius grows confined. The angular vortexes in the downsink vary intermittantly and quite rapidly, at times coming more to a standstill. The following two images show a stage of strong vortex fluid flows of different angular momentum vectors (left), and a pause in the downsink's turbos of strong motions (right), where dancing chatters and irregularity is seen replacing smooth ribbons. Revelational thinkers can percieve the core of a shattered moon or once-planet may have soft landed into Jupiter slow enough to remain somewhat intact toward Jupiter's core, intact in shape enough to form a large mound over which hurtles stupendous quantities of atmosphere at flow rates fast enough to create substantial downsink, turbulent flows of unequal velocity North and South around the obstacle creating the circular vortex (eye) circumventing the downsink. The downsink is titled, the upper edge deeper down like a cave under a cowling, the lower edge jutting out at a higher elevation, that is, the floor of the downsink is tilted like the eye of a fish looking up.

This red
weak movie
shows that the
red spot is moving
retrograde relative to the
prevailing drift of the weather bands



A 3d look at the center spool reveals layered bands and ropes. Dynamically, it is not a whirlpool, repeat, not a whirlpool



The
morphing
in the great
sinkhole is not as you
would expect as an ordinary
whirlpool or vortex, such as in the oceons
at the change of tides. This sinkhole is slanted, there
is much more elevation on the north side than on the south
side. The ropes are entering (or exiting) the north side
in layers stacked vertically like pancakes. In this
regard, the Giant Red Spot is 'cammed' like
the eyeball of a fish, similar to galaxy
center cores which are all cammed, as
well exampled by the centercore
of the Cartwheel galaxy















Next,
a strong
vertical component
in the white ribbon spinning
off the oval, is self evident. Vertical component
means the edge of the ribbon is waving up and down
along a narrow vertical path, rather than
rippling sideways along a wide
horizontal plane





Evidentally,
witnessed according
to these following red center
views, the Red Spot periodically breaks
up into a period of calm that has no main ropes
or strong coils of downsink, instead like an ocean bay
between the turn of tides the flows become quiescent,
small, broken up, with no clear distinctions or
directions, momentarily in aggitated chatter,
such as these next images indicate





PEERING INTO THE PIT OF THE MAELSTROM





The
small
white dot
makes a person
think of Amalthea, a
tiny moon orbiting at only 1/5th
the distance of Io, the small moon less
than 15 klms in radius compared to Io's radius
of nearly 1600 klms. It is not self evident that
the small white dot (at bottom of image) is
Amalthea but if it were, it would not
look much different than this









Next,
the Red Spot
photographed in four
different frequencies. The two
at left are shown above in 3D, in original
then images enhanced to reveal content in the dark areas

=========== JUPITER'S GIANT RED SPOT

FROM AN EARLIER STUDY

The
Giant
Red Spot
on Jupter is
very dynamic, changing
constantly. It does have certain
standing features of a steady state (long term)
nature - it is not flush with the surface, being like a
rolled oval log of pizza dough jutting out with the long part
of the log overlayed by clouds gliding in a horizontal plane over the top
which means the front face is slightly vertical with clouds moving over
the upper part in a counter clockwise motion. The lower portion
of the Red Spot is rather deeply recessed below the
horizon's lip whereas the upper portion
protrudes into space, so that
the entire opening is
like a cliff face.
There is no
uniform
swirls
within
the vortex
itself. Bands of
clouds come out at different
layers (elevations) and concentrate into
thin ropes that are drawn back in, sometimes with ropes
approaching a re-entry portal from two opposite directions,
the portals found at different elevations on the cliff face.
The dynamics are such that at times the oval's face is
almost circular and at other times squeezed with
clouds sweeping over much of the upper half
of the cliff face. The entire Red Spot
itself rotates slowly to the left
(counterclockwise). Unlike
vortex swirls down a
bathtub or tornado
the Red Spot has
no funnel


AN ORIGINAL












GOOD 3D LOOK AT CENTER SPOOL's BANDS AND ROPES









RED SPOT IMAGES TAKEN OVER SEVERAL YEARS BY HUBBLE



Hubble Heritage views of the Red Spot

Web site/display/designs/image enhancements - Greydon Moore World's largest cosmic teaching site - Ottawa 2001/2004         form   A & O 3 3

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