Re: It's a hurricane?
Yes. For a hurricane to form you need a source of heat heating the area of low pressure air from below.
On Earth that heat comes from the oceans, so as hurricanes reach land their source of heat disappears and they weaken and dissipate.
Because Jupiter doesn't have a solid surface, it's most probably heat from the liquid core that is fuelling this storm and helping to sustain it almost indefinitely.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
