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Old 18-07-2018, 12:02 PM
julianh72 (Julian)
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Originally Posted by deanm View Post
Not really Jupiter's 'surface' - top of clouds.
But your observation is a good one - probably some common mechanism involving fluid dynamics (not that I know anything about that!)
Dean
Definitely looks a lot like the interaction of a number of "Karman Vortex Streets" (a repeating pattern of swirling vortices in the downstream flow past a "blunt body").

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mULL6O6f38

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A..._vortex_street
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