{"id":4249,"date":"2019-09-03T18:17:26","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T12:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=4249"},"modified":"2019-09-03T18:17:26","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T12:47:26","slug":"planet-jupiter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/planet-jupiter\/","title":{"rendered":"Planet Jupiter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Relevance: prelims\/mains: G.S paper III: Science and tech<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the study analysing Juno mission\u2019s data, zonal winds around Jupiter alternating east-west jet streams can only descend to 3,000 km in the atmosphere. That why Jupiter\u2019s stripes are only skin deep.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The stripes of colour on Jupiter are called its bands.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Types:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There are two types of bands on Jupiter.<\/li>\n<li>The light-coloured bands are called \u2018zones\u2019 and show regions where the gas is rising.<\/li>\n<li>The dark-coloured bands are called \u2018belts\u2019 and show where gas is sinking.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Cause:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jupiter\u2019s stripes or \u2018bands\u2019 are caused by differences in the chemical composition and temperature of the atmospheric gas.<\/li>\n<li>It used to be thought that the only cause for these bands was the strong atmospheric winds coupled with strong convection cells circulating material between different layers of the atmosphere.<\/li>\n<li>However, it is now thought that Jupiter\u2019s moons also play an important role in making Jupiter stripy by tugging on the planet\u2019s atmospheric convection cells.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: prelims\/mains: G.S paper III: Science and tech According to the study analysing Juno mission\u2019s data, zonal winds around Jupiter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-4249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4250,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249\/revisions\/4250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}