Changing Color Spots on Jupiter

Abstract:
Hypothesis:  The changing colors of the spots on Jupiter are 
due to increased internal temperatures caused by 
gravitational accretion of mass or subsurface 
rotational abrasion caused by different orbiting periods of 
the layers of mass beneath the surface of Jupiter creating 
rotating 'hot spots' on the surface of the planet which in 
turn causes the fierce storms that store, redistribute, and 
release the newly generated heat that came from the interior 
of the planet.

ummm... sort of like a slow motion moving (traveling) 
volcano beneath the floor of Earth's oceans. 

The spots on the planet Jupiter change color from time to 
time, going from whitish to reddish.

The best GUESS by an intuitive Joseph_Sixpack as to 
what is really happening on the surface of Jupiter is that 
the color change is due to a very huge magnetic vortexed 
storm and performs somewhat the same function like the 
sunspots do upon the sun, a storing and redistribution of 
energy.

The storms could occur if/when mass is accreted and the mass 
heats up the planet's surface and subsurface and therefore 
the storms are a physical method to absorb the energy from 
the accretion.

Restated, the rotational velocities of the surface 
atmosphere and sub-surface vortexes are increased to offset 
the increased temperatures caused by the accretion impact.

Now why the color shift from white to red?

Well, the explanation might be that the vortexes pick up a 
red iron oxide and storm it up into the atmosphere and then 
it resettles out when the heat and winds dissipates.  Other 
chemicals might be responsible as well.



                       i wonder if...

Side question:  If our little airless moon had any sort of 
atmosphere, would it blow up a ton of dust from time to time 
too?



                           But...

Another explanation for the color change of spots could be 
something as simple as subsurface rotational abrasion 
between mass layers at different depths generating slowly 
movign 'hot' surface spots which would generate the fierce 
winds from time to time as set forth above in the 
hypothesis.

How did the Shoemaker-Levy comet affect Jupiter with its 
accretion into the mass of Jupiter?



                   See Spot & Little Spot

Now the question begs joseph_sixpack:

Just what is a spot doing on Jupiter anyhow?

Well, it is there...  the suspicion from joe is that it is a 
permanent magnetic disturbance somehow tacked on the 
surface.  The best idea from a joe point of view is that the 
thing might be a remmant of an old somewhat very large iron, 
highly magnetic asteroid or, if they are stable, a very 
small section or part of an old collapsed star that still 
has enormous albeit weakening gauss.  Eventually, and with a 
big perhaps, the spot will very gradually go away. 

An equally well alternative is that Jupiter being somewhat 
gaseous, that it is a somewhat permanent part of the gaseous 
dynamics of heat regulation of the planet.  That would 
suggest that we could look for 'spots' of varying nature on 
all of our gaseous planets as they would be part of the 
natural dynamics of such systems.  The changing colors 
indicate changing energy dissipation rates.



                   Jupiter as a Roman God

From a metaphysical point of view, it is not too surprising 
to find large spots on any roman god or God of Rome.  A spot 
is a spot is a spot.  ...out damn spot...

An essential challenge of life is to keep the damn spots off 
our own souls and even our own planet for our duration here 
traveling upon and on the spaceship earth.