That's when mission planners project radio communications will be lost with the two - ton, bus - size spacecraft as it plunges into the giant planet's
turbulent atmosphere at more than 122,000 kilometers per hour.
Not exact matches
With a temperature of 3000 degrees and such winds blowing
at several thousand kilometres per hour, the HD189733b exoplanet's
atmosphere is truly
turbulent.
«This newly discovered analogy has the potential to be a significant step forward in our understanding of
turbulent flows in free - surface vortices and to provide insights into diverse areas of study ranging from civil engineering hydraulic structures to weather systems in the
atmosphere and even extending to the details of how galaxies rotate around the black holes
at their centres,» Dr Richard Sherlock, a lecturer in Physics
at IT Sligo, said.
Rather, the intrinsic thermal lapse between two reservoirs
at different temperatures creates the convection that establishes a self - consistent lapse in the
atmosphere in between, which can be enormously complex because once the convective forces exceed certain limits, the convective flow becomes
turbulent.
Since the earth's
atmosphere is demonstrably not in thermal equilibrium
at any scale (since it is chaotic and
turbulent) your point is meaningless to what Ross said.