As for Jupiter's Water- IF I had to Guess....it probably is from the planet forming the same way the earth did----And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. Genesis 1:2....now as for how water was used to form the terrestrial (rock) planet like earth vs. a gaseous planet like Jupiter-well, that's the mysteries of God.
“Hydrogen and helium are transparent to most microwave frequencies, so Juno probes for trace gases, especially ammonia, the most abundant, as a proxy to study atmospheric circulation, according to Janssen. Data accumulated during the first half of the mission presented a big surprise to scientists.
We previously had very limited understanding of ammonia distribution in the atmosphere,” Janssen says. “We thought, based on Earth analogues and modeling, that ammonia was uniformly mixed down to deep levels, with variability only in the uppermost regions, where ammonia clouds form. We discovered that it is actually highly variable over the whole range of pressures.” Jupiter’s ammonia is concentrated in belts within 5 to 10 degrees latitude north and south of the equator and is greatly depleted in other regions. “The fact that this [atmospheric] circulation goes so deep was a surprise to us,” Janssen says.
Scientists are also assessing the amount of water in Jupiter’s atmosphere, Janssen says. Water is older than the solar system; it existed in the solar nebula before any planets formed. Hydrogen and helium constituted 99 percent of the nebula, he says, with oxygen a distant third. By studying Jupiter’s water, scientists can learn about the planet’s origin.
“The distribution of water, relative to the distribution on, say, Earth or the inner solar system, tells us [how close to the sun] Jupiter formed,” says Jared Espley, Juno program scientist at NASA."
Earth
“Hydrogen and helium are transparent to most microwave frequencies, so Juno probes for trace gases, especially ammonia, the most abundant, as a proxy to study atmospheric circulation, according to Janssen. Data accumulated during the first half of the mission presented a big surprise to scientists.
We previously had very limited understanding of ammonia distribution in the atmosphere,” Janssen says. “We thought, based on Earth analogues and modeling, that ammonia was uniformly mixed down to deep levels, with variability only in the uppermost regions, where ammonia clouds form. We discovered that it is actually highly variable over the whole range of pressures.” Jupiter’s ammonia is concentrated in belts within 5 to 10 degrees latitude north and south of the equator and is greatly depleted in other regions. “The fact that this [atmospheric] circulation goes so deep was a surprise to us,” Janssen says.
Scientists are also assessing the amount of water in Jupiter’s atmosphere, Janssen says. Water is older than the solar system; it existed in the solar nebula before any planets formed. Hydrogen and helium constituted 99 percent of the nebula, he says, with oxygen a distant third. By studying Jupiter’s water, scientists can learn about the planet’s origin.
“The distribution of water, relative to the distribution on, say, Earth or the inner solar system, tells us [how close to the sun] Jupiter formed,” says Jared Espley, Juno program scientist at NASA."
Earth
