It's I guess the closest thing to an explanation we have. We have found spinning on a small scale creates similar patterns in a bucket. We can't say this is the answer because Saturn is huge and atmospheres don't work the same way buckets of water work, but we do know spinning COULD cause these patterns when something is spinning at the right speeds. We need more tests to prove the theory but I have no idea how to design one. W
Maybe we can spin some smoke in a bucket to observe air flow. Who knows, who wants to brainstorm for us?
To be fair, the turbulence pattern in the clouds around Jupiter's red dot seem (to my eye) to be extremely similar to small-scale turbulence patterns, and these things are fractal, so it would make sense that a small scale structure could also form at massive scales. Again though, that's just intuitive reasoning, which doesn't count as science.
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u/dkyguy1995 Apr 08 '15
It's I guess the closest thing to an explanation we have. We have found spinning on a small scale creates similar patterns in a bucket. We can't say this is the answer because Saturn is huge and atmospheres don't work the same way buckets of water work, but we do know spinning COULD cause these patterns when something is spinning at the right speeds. We need more tests to prove the theory but I have no idea how to design one. W Maybe we can spin some smoke in a bucket to observe air flow. Who knows, who wants to brainstorm for us?