Certain gaseous worlds, such as Jupiter , are covered by stripes parallel to the equator that occupy their surface from one pole to the other. In these regions, winds flow at different speeds. Astronomers assumed that they were caused by a phenomenon of convection, which arose as a consequence of the tendency of hot gases to rise and cold gases to fall, but it was not clear if they only took place in the atmosphere or if they reached the core of the planet. .
Now, a team of researchers from the universities of Göttingen, in Germany, and Aix-Marseille, in France, have proposed that these may also be caused in part by the gravitational pull of the gas giant's dozens of moons .
