Science

What is the wind speed on other planets in the solar system?

On Mercury, there is no wind because there is no atmosphere.👇

On Venus, however, there are very strong winds averaging 200 km/h, with peaks reaching 400 km/h👇.

On Earth, the average wind speed is 11 km/h. The strongest wind ever recorded was at 371 km/h.👇

On Mars, the average wind speed is 96 km/h, with a peak of 344 km/h recorded during the Viking mission.👇

On the gas giant Jupiter, a wind speed of 643 km/h has been recorded inside the famous Great Red Spot.👇

It is estimated that at the top of Saturn’s atmosphere, wind speeds can reach 1800 km/h at the equator.👇

On Uranus, winds reach speeds of 900 km/h.👇

On Neptune, the strongest wind in the entire solar system has been recorded at 2414 km/h.👇

Related Posts

Why do we need an escape velocity to lift a rocket into space? Can’t a rocket just fly up at a constant low speed i.e. 60 mph and eventually reach space?

Well, in theory, you are right. In fact, your imaginary ship doesn’t need to go 60 mph, it could go 1 mph, so long as it could keep…

Since Jupiter is a gas planet, why can’t comets collide with Jupiter and pass right through it?

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system, with a diameter of approximately 143,000 kilometers and a mass 318 times that of Earth. As a gas giant,…

How does the Earth orbit the sun without losing energy?

Physics is hard to understand because it violates everyday observation, intuition, and common sense. Take “Newton’s First Law” as an example. It states that an object in motion…

What would happen if we poured 1 billion liters of water on Mars?

So – let’s get this into cubic meters. A liter is 1/1000th of a cubic meter – so we’re talking about a million cubic meters – which would…

The drinking duck is a common science toy in American physics classrooms and elsewhere

When you wet its head, it slowly lowers until it suddenly becomes almost horizontal, then straightens up after a jolt or two. If you put a glass of…

If we can squeeze 1 terabyte into a MicroSD card, why don’t we have standard sized hard drives that can hold thousands of terabytes of data?

Here’s a 128GB microSD card with the lid off. That black rectangle is the actual flash memory chip. You could probably fit at least 40 of these on…

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *