Discover a sky full of water on another planet right in the Solar System

The gas giant, the oldest planet of the Solar System, has more abundant atmospheric water than water in Earth's Arctic atmosphere.

The team from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL NASA) has just announced the amazing results they have achieved when analyzing Juno spacecraft data: Earth is not the only planet in the System The sun has water in the atmosphere!

Jupiter's atmosphere has an abundance of water vapor - (photo: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Kevin M. Gill).

This second water planet is Jupiter . It is estimated to have at least 0.25% water in the atmosphere. This is a pretty big number. On Earth, the amount of water in the atmosphere depends on the topography, for example, in tropical plains the percentage can be up to 4%, while in the Arctic, Antarctica or high mountains the percentage of water vapor in The atmosphere is only about 0.2%.

Water was found when Juno's camera approached the thick white clouds at Jupiter's equator and used a microwave radiation meter to measure deep water in the atmosphere.

The study, published in the journal Nature Astronomy , says that calculating the rate of water vapor in Jupiter's atmosphere is good news for scientists because it is so important in the research process. Solar system. Jupiter has always been the first to be cared for by a solid theory that it is the first planet of the Solar System, with fairly clear evidence that it contains a lot of gas and dust that does not belong to the sun.

Earlier, in a reconnaissance of the Great Red Spot - the red super typhoon raging for centuries on Jupiter, NASA once discovered signs of deep steam in the storm. In addition, the amount of oxygen on this planet is 2-9 times more than the sun. NASA believes that this gas giant may exist " a strange form of life".

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