{ "id": 11204, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11204/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "Jupiter's Hot Spots", "description": "Jupiter's bright Equatorial Zone swirls with dark patches, dubbed \"hot spots\" for their infrared glow. These holes in the ammonia clouds at the top of the atmosphere allow a glimpse into Jupiter's darker, hotter layers below. In 1995 NASA's Galileo spacecraft dropped a probe directly into a hot spot, taking the first and only in situ measurements of Jupiter's atmosphere. Now, movies recorded by NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveal that hot spots are not just local weather phenomena, but are in fact linked to much larger-scale atmospheric structures called Rossby waves. || ", "release_date": "2013-03-14T14:30:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:52:19.059774-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 468542, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011200/a011204/G2012-099_Jupiter_Spots_MASTER_youtube_hq00227_print.jpg", "filename": "G2012-099_Jupiter_Spots_MASTER_youtube_hq00227_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "NASA postdoctoral fellow David Choi discusses his study of dark features in Jupiter's atmosphere called \"hot spots,\" and their connection to large-scale atmospheric waves.For complete transcript, click here.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 }, "main_video": null, "main_credits": { "Visualizations by": [ { "name": "Tom Bridgman", "employer": "Global Science and Technology, Inc." } ] }, "progress": "Complete", "media_groups": [ { "id": 346434, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11204/#media_group_346434", "widget": "Basic text with HTML", "title": "", "caption": "", "description": "Jupiter's bright Equatorial Zone swirls with dark patches, dubbed \"hot spots\" for their infrared glow. These holes in the ammonia clouds at the top of the atmosphere allow a glimpse into Jupiter's darker, hotter layers below. In 1995 NASA's Galileo spacecraft dropped a probe directly into a hot spot, taking the first and only in situ measurements of Jupiter's atmosphere. Now, movies recorded by NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveal that hot spots are not just local weather phenomena, but are in fact linked to much larger-scale atmospheric structures called Rossby waves.", "items": [], "extra_data": {} }, { "id": 346435, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11204/#media_group_346435", "widget": "Video player", "title": "", "caption": "", "description": "NASA postdoctoral fellow David Choi discusses his study of dark features in Jupiter's atmosphere called \"hot spots,\" and their connection to large-scale atmospheric waves.

For complete transcript, click here.", "items": [ { "id": 310989, "type": "media", "extra_data": null, "title": null, "caption": null, "instance": { "id": 468542, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011200/a011204/G2012-099_Jupiter_Spots_MASTER_youtube_hq00227_print.jpg", "filename": "G2012-099_Jupiter_Spots_MASTER_youtube_hq00227_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "NASA postdoctoral fellow David Choi discusses his study of dark features in Jupiter's atmosphere called \"hot spots,\" and their connection to large-scale atmospheric waves.For complete transcript, click here.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } }, { "id": 310986, "type": "media", "extra_data": null, "title": null, "caption": null, "instance": { "id": 468539, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011200/a011204/G2012-099_Jupiter_Spots_MASTER_youtube_hq_web.png", "filename": "G2012-099_Jupiter_Spots_MASTER_youtube_hq_web.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "NASA postdoctoral fellow David Choi discusses his study of dark features in Jupiter's atmosphere called \"hot spots,\" and their connection to large-scale atmospheric waves.For complete transcript, click here.", "width": 320, "height": 180, "pixels": 57600 } }, { "id": 310987, "type": "media", "extra_data": null, "title": null, "caption": null, "instance": { "id": 468540, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011200/a011204/G2012-099_Jupiter_Spots_MASTER_youtube_hq_thm.png", "filename": "G2012-099_Jupiter_Spots_MASTER_youtube_hq_thm.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "NASA postdoctoral fellow David Choi discusses his study of dark features in Jupiter's atmosphere called \"hot spots,\" and their connection to large-scale atmospheric waves.For complete transcript, click here.", "width": 80, "height": 40, "pixels": 3200 } }, { "id": 310979, "type": "media", "extra_data": null, "title": null, "caption": null, "instance": { "id": 468532, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011200/a011204/G2012-099_Jupiter_Spots_MASTER_youtube_hq.mov", "filename": "G2012-099_Jupiter_Spots_MASTER_youtube_hq.mov", "media_type": "Movie", "alt_text": "NASA postdoctoral fellow David Choi discusses his study of dark features in Jupiter's atmosphere called \"hot spots,\" and their connection to large-scale atmospheric waves.For complete transcript, click here.", "width": 1280, "height": 720, "pixels": 921600 } }, { "id": 310981, "type": "media", "extra_data": null, "title": null, "caption": null, "instance": { "id": 468534, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011200/a011204/G2012-099_Jupiter_Spots_MASTER_1280x720.wmv", "filename": "G2012-099_Jupiter_Spots_MASTER_1280x720.wmv", "media_type": "Movie", "alt_text": "NASA postdoctoral fellow David Choi discusses his study of dark features in Jupiter's atmosphere called \"hot spots,\" and their connection to large-scale atmospheric waves.For complete transcript, click here.", "width": 1280, "height": 720, "pixels": 921600 } }, { "id": 310982, "type": "media", "extra_data": null, "title": null, "caption": null, "instance": { "id": 468535, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011200/a011204/G2012-099_Jupiter_Spots_MASTER_appletv.m4v", "filename": "G2012-099_Jupiter_Spots_MASTER_appletv.m4v", "media_type": "Movie", "alt_text": "NASA postdoctoral fellow David Choi discusses his study of dark features in Jupiter's atmosphere called \"hot spots,\" and their connection to large-scale atmospheric waves.For complete transcript, click here.", "width": 960, "height": 540, "pixels": 518400 } }, { "id": 310984, "type": "media", "extra_data": null, "title": null, "caption": null, "instance": { "id": 468537, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011200/a011204/G2012-099_Jupiter_Spots_MASTER_prores.mov", "filename": "G2012-099_Jupiter_Spots_MASTER_prores.mov", "media_type": "Movie", "alt_text": "NASA postdoctoral fellow David Choi discusses his study of dark features in Jupiter's atmosphere called \"hot spots,\" and their connection to large-scale atmospheric waves.For complete transcript, click here.", "width": 1280, "height": 720, "pixels": 921600 } }, { "id": 310988, "type": "media", "extra_data": null, "title": null, "caption": null, "instance": { "id": 468541, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011200/a011204/G2012-099_Jupiter_Spots_MASTER_appletv.webmhd.webm", "filename": "G2012-099_Jupiter_Spots_MASTER_appletv.webmhd.webm", "media_type": "Movie", "alt_text": "NASA postdoctoral fellow David Choi discusses his study of dark features in Jupiter's atmosphere called \"hot spots,\" and their connection to large-scale atmospheric waves.For complete transcript, click here.", "width": 960, "height": 540, "pixels": 518400 } }, { "id": 310980, "type": "media", "extra_data": null, "title": null, "caption": null, "instance": { "id": 468533, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011200/a011204/G2012-099_Jupiter_Spots_MASTER_ipod_lg.m4v", "filename": "G2012-099_Jupiter_Spots_MASTER_ipod_lg.m4v", "media_type": "Movie", "alt_text": "NASA postdoctoral fellow David Choi discusses his study of dark features in Jupiter's atmosphere called \"hot spots,\" and their connection to large-scale atmospheric waves.For complete transcript, click here.", "width": 640, "height": 360, "pixels": 230400 } }, { "id": 310985, "type": "media", "extra_data": null, "title": null, "caption": null, "instance": { "id": 468538, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011200/a011204/G2012-099_Jupiter_Spots_MASTER.mov", "filename": "G2012-099_Jupiter_Spots_MASTER.mov", "media_type": "Movie", "alt_text": "NASA postdoctoral fellow David Choi discusses his study of dark features in Jupiter's atmosphere called \"hot spots,\" and their connection to large-scale atmospheric waves.For complete transcript, click here.", "width": 640, "height": 360, "pixels": 230400 } }, { "id": 310990, "type": "media", "extra_data": null, "title": null, "caption": null, "instance": { "id": 853757, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011200/a011204/GSFC_20130314_Jupiter_m11204_HotSpots.en_US.srt", "filename": "GSFC_20130314_Jupiter_m11204_HotSpots.en_US.srt", "media_type": "Captions", "alt_text": "NASA postdoctoral fellow David Choi discusses his study of dark features in Jupiter's atmosphere called \"hot spots,\" and their connection to large-scale atmospheric waves.For complete transcript, click here.", "label": "English", "language_code": "" } }, { "id": 310991, "type": "media", "extra_data": null, "title": null, "caption": null, "instance": { "id": 853758, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011200/a011204/GSFC_20130314_Jupiter_m11204_HotSpots.en_US.vtt", "filename": "GSFC_20130314_Jupiter_m11204_HotSpots.en_US.vtt", "media_type": "Captions", "alt_text": "NASA postdoctoral fellow David Choi discusses his study of dark features in Jupiter's atmosphere called \"hot spots,\" and their connection to large-scale atmospheric waves.For complete transcript, click here.", "label": "English", "language_code": "" } }, { "id": 310983, "type": "media", "extra_data": null, "title": null, "caption": null, "instance": { "id": 468536, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011200/a011204/G2012-099_Jupiter_Spots_MASTER_ipod_sm.mp4", "filename": "G2012-099_Jupiter_Spots_MASTER_ipod_sm.mp4", "media_type": "Movie", "alt_text": "NASA postdoctoral fellow David Choi discusses his study of dark features in Jupiter's atmosphere called \"hot spots,\" and their connection to large-scale atmospheric waves.For complete transcript, click here.", "width": 320, "height": 240, "pixels": 76800 } } ], "extra_data": {} }, { "id": 346436, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11204/#media_group_346436", "widget": "Basic text", "title": "For More Information", "caption": "", "description": "See the following sources:\n\n* [http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.0277](http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.0277)\n* [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103513000407](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103513000407)", "items": [], "extra_data": {} } ], "studio": "gms", "funding_sources": [ "ESE" ], "credits": [ { "role": "Animator", "people": [ { "name": "Tom Bridgman", "employer": "Global Science and Technology, Inc." }, { "name": "Greg Shirah", "employer": "NASA/GSFC" }, { "name": "Ernie Wright", "employer": "USRA" }, { "name": "Trent L. Schindler", "employer": "USRA" }, { "name": "Lori Perkins", "employer": "NASA/GSFC" } ] }, { "role": "Video editor", "people": [ { "name": "Dan Gallagher", "employer": "USRA" } ] }, { "role": "Interviewee", "people": [ { "name": "David Choi", "employer": "Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU)" } ] }, { "role": "Producer", "people": [ { "name": "Dan Gallagher", "employer": "USRA" } ] }, { "role": "Scientist", "people": [ { "name": "David Choi", "employer": "Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU)" } ] }, { "role": "Videographer", "people": [ { "name": "Rob Andreoli", "employer": "Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc." } ] } ], "missions": [ "Galileo" ], "series": [ "Narrated Movies" ], "tapes": [ "Jupiter's Hot Spots (Produced by: Dan Jacob)" ], "papers": [ "http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103513000407", "http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103513000407" ], "datasets": [ { "name": "", "common_name": "Cassini/Jupiter imagery", "platform": "Cassini", "sensor": "Imaging Science Subsystem", "type": "Mosaic", "organizations": [ "Cassini Imagery/Central Laboratory for OPerations" ], "description": "Cassini/Jupiter imagery", "credit": "", "url": "http://ciclops.org/", "date_range": null } ], "nasa_science_categories": [ "Planets & Moons" ], "keywords": [ "Atmosphere", "Cassini", "Earth Science", "Galileo", "HDTV", "Hot Spot", "Infrared", "Jupiter", "Ocean Waves", "Oceans", "Rossby/planetary Waves" ], "recommended_pages": [], "related": [ { "id": 4601, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4601/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Jupiter Quasi-Quadrennial Oscillation", "description": "Climate patterns on Jupiter can have striking similarities to those on Earth, making the gas giant a natural laboratory for understanding planetary atmospheres. Complete transcript available.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Music provided by Killer Tracks: \"Lights,\" \"Times Waits,\" \"The Space Between\" || JupiterQQOpreview.jpg (1920x1080) [456.5 KB] || TWITTER_720_4601_Jupiter_QQO_Master_APR_twitter_720.mp4 (1280x720) [37.7 MB] || 4601_Jupiter_QQO_Master.webm (960x540) [72.7 MB] || FACEBOOK_720_4601_Jupiter_QQO_Master_APR_facebook_720.mp4 (1280x720) [218.0 MB] || YOUTUBE_HQ_4601_Jupiter_QQO_Master_APR_youtube_hq.mov (1920x1080) [875.9 MB] || 4601_Jupiter_QQO_Master_APR_Output.en_US.srt [3.8 KB] || 4601_Jupiter_QQO_Master_APR_Output.en_US.vtt [3.8 KB] || 4601_Jupiter_QQO_Master_APR.mov (1920x1080) [2.4 GB] || ", "release_date": "2017-12-18T11:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2025-01-06T00:12:17.746758-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 409017, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004600/a004601/JupiterQQOPreviewGlobal.jpg", "filename": "JupiterQQOPreviewGlobal.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Jupiter quasi-quadrennial oscillation, global view.", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } }, { "id": 11237, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11237/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "Jupiter's Hot Spots", "description": "Jupiter is a planet known for clouds, from its distinctive orange and white stripes to the swirling vortex known as the Great Red Spot. But its cloudless patches are just as interesting—and so unusual that the big ones get the special name \"hot spots.\" Exactly how they form and why they're only found near the equator have long been mysteries. To study hot spots in motion, scientists made movies from images taken when NASA's Cassini spacecraft flew past the planet in 2000. The movies reveal new evidence that Jupiter's hot spots are created by an atmospheric phenomenon known as a Rossby wave. As the wave glides up and down in Jupiter's atmosphere like a horse on a merry-go-round, it creates holes in the clouds by displacing cold air. This results in a line of cloud-free warm air pockets, or hot spots, seen around the planet. Watch the video to learn more. || ", "release_date": "2013-04-25T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:52:12.848450-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 466121, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011200/a011237/Hotspot_cover_1024.jpg", "filename": "Hotspot_cover_1024.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Movies reveal the restless nature of Jupiter's shadowy hot spots and the force behind them.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } ], "sources": [], "products": [], "newer_versions": [], "older_versions": [], "alternate_versions": [] }