Do other planets have storms?

Question

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Answer 1

Yes, I think Jupiter has one right now that is larger than the planet earth.

Answer 2

Yes, other planets have storms. Jupiter is known for its giant red swirling storm. The moon has all those craters because it was hit with asteroids. The planet has to have an atmosphere of some kind to have storms. Venus has storms, too. I think most of them do.

Answer 3

Yes, Venus has voilent windstorms and the surface temp is on average about 900 degrees F. Jupiter has the Great Red Spot which has been around since Galileo's time, which is literally large enough to hold three Earth's. Jupiter's moon Io is extremely volcanically active. Mercury has polar icecaps from snow and, obviously hurricanes. the sun, though not a planet, is obviously a giant firestorm which could melt anything on earth in a matter of milliseconds from hundreds of thousands of miles away. Saturn is very well-known for having giant windstorms.

Answer 4

Yes.. Great Red Spot in Jupiter is a raging storm which is there for more than 400 years.. it is very huge that many earths can be accomodated in it.. Cassini has found some storms in Saturn and Mars is famous for its sand storms.. So obviously there are storms in other plantes..

Answer 5

If they have an atmosphere, they have storms. The storms may only be light wind storms or they could be the equivelant of a magnitude 5,000 huricane.

Planets with lightning storms have not been discovered yet but statistically there are a lot out there.

Answer 6

Yes, Mars jupiter and saturn have alot especially mars. To learn more about them try http://www.nasa.gov/index.html heres a sample of the story
Two Storms Caught in the Act on Saturn
April 8, 2004

Three months before Saturn arrival, the Cassini spacecraft has observed two storms in the act of merging into one larger storm. This is only the second time this phenomenon has been observed on the ringed planet.

"Merging is one of the distinct features of storms in the giant planet atmospheres," said Dr. Andrew Ingersoll, member of the Cassini imaging team and professor of planetary science at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif.

"On Earth, storms last for a week or so and usually fade away when they enter the mature phase and can no longer extract energy from their surroundings. On Saturn and the other giant planets, storms last for months, years, or even centuries, and instead of simply fading away, many storms on the giant planets end their lives by merging. How they form, however, is still uncertain," said Ingersoll.

With diameters close to 1,000 kilometers (621 miles), both storms were seen moving west, relative to the rotation of Saturn's interior, for about a month before they merged on March 19 through 20, 2004.

The northern storm moved about twice as fast as the southern storm, 11 meters per second versus 6 meters per second (25 miles per hour versus 13 miles per hour) respectively. They approached each other like two cars on a highway and spun around each other in a counterclockwise direction as they merged. This is the opposite of how hurricanes spin in the southern hemisphere on Earth.

Just after the merger, on March 20, the new storm was elongated in the north-south direction, with bright clouds on either end. Two days later the storm settled into a more circular shape and the bright clouds were spread around the circumference to form a halo. Whether the bright clouds are particles of a different composition or simply at a different altitude is uncertain.

Although these storms move slowly west, storms at Saturn's equator move east at speeds up to 450 meters per second (1,000 miles per hour), which is 10 times the speed of Earth's jet streams and three times greater than the equatorial winds on Jupiter.

"Saturn is the windiest planet in the solar system," said Ingersoll, "and that's a huge mystery. We'll be getting closer to the planet all the way through June, so maybe we'll find out."

Images from the Voyager spacecraft flybys of Saturn in August 1981 show storms partially merging, but to see them with Cassini this far out from Saturn is a mouthwatering surprise to scientists because they will get even closer during Cassini's four-year Saturn tour. "I'm optimistic because these images are already so good. The best is yet to come," said Ingersoll.

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and the two cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team is based at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo.

Answer 7

Yeah, I think so. But maybe not all the planets. I think the moon don't have storm. so there are storms in planets and there are not in some planets

Answer 8

yes actually most of them do. Wind storms, etc. Jupiter has a huge eye (like the eye of a hurricane). that storm is bigger than earth.

Answer 9

Yes. Mars is known to have large dust storms, and the red spot on Jupiter is another.

Answer 10

Yes, all planets with atmospheres have weather / storms...