Moving Weather Systems on Jupiter Access and view the video “The Great Red Spot” in Chapter 8 of the Discovering the Universe Web site. (a) Near the bottom of the video window you will see a white oval moving from left to right. By stepping through the video one frame at a time, estimate how long it takes this oval to move a distance equal to its horizontal dimension. (Hint: You can keep track of time by noticing how many frames it takes a feature in the Great Red Spot, at the center of the video window, to move in a complete circle around the center of the spot. The actual time for this feature to complete a circle is about 6 days.) (b) The horizontal dimension of the white oval is about 4000 km. At what approximate speed (in km/hr) does the white oval move? (Speed = distance/time)
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