Saturday 17 May 2014

The shrinking of Jupiter's Great Red Spot

SPACE SCOPES
The shrinking of Jupiter's Great Red Spot
Baltimore MD (SPX) May 16, 2014 - Jupiter's trademark Great Red Spot - a swirling storm feature larger than Earth - is shrinking. This downsizing, which is changing the shape of the spot from an oval into a circle, has been known about since the 1930s, but now these striking new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope images capture the spot at a smaller size than ever before. Jupiter's Great Red Spot is a churning anticyclonic st ... more


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