Jupiter, Great Red Spot and Hubble
SciTech Daily · 1d
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Enigma: Unexplained Oscillations Baffle Astronomers
Jupiter's Titanic Storm Wiggles Like a Plate of Gelatin Jupiter's birthmark is an unbelievably huge storm that’s mysteriously crimson red in color. It looks like a bloodshot cycloptic eye staring back at Earth.
earth · 2d
Jupiter's Great Red Spot shrinks and expands like a stress ball
According to NASA, the Great Red Spot looks like a bloodshot cycloptic eye staring back at Earth. It is a massive storm, unique for its captivating crimson hue, that has been churning along Jupiter’s southern mid-latitude cloud belt for at least 150 years.
KEYT · 2d
New Hubble images show Jupiter’s Great Red Spot wiggles like gelatin
The Great Red Spot, or GRS, is an anticyclone, or a large circulation of winds in Jupiter’s atmosphere that rotates around a central area of high pressure along the planet’s southern midlatitude cloud belt. And the long-lived storm is so large — the ...
Popular Science · 2d
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot jiggles like JELL-O
By contrast, the planet Neptune has dark spots that can drift widely in latitude without strong jet streams holding them in place. Jupiter’s GRS has been at a southern latitude, trapped between the jet streams, for as long as Earth-bound telescopes have been observing it.
New Atlas · 2d
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot unstable, ‘jiggling like a bowl of gelatin’
High-resolution images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot have revealed that it’s not as stable as we thought. Instead, the Spot is squeezing in and out, with NASA describing it as “jiggling like a bowl of gelatin.
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