By Tony Phillips
Science.NASA.gov posted: 03 March 2006 01:33 pm ET Backyard astronomers, grab your telescopes. Jupiter is growing a new red spot.
The official name of the new storm is "Oval BA," but "Red Jr." might be better. It's about half the size of the famous Great Red Spot and almost exactly the same color. Oval BA first appeared in the year 2000 when three smaller spots collided and merged. Using Hubble and other telescopes, astronomers watched with great interest. A similar merger that happened centuries ago may have created the original Great Red Spot, a storm twice as wide as our planet and at least 300 years old. |
By Tony Phillips
Science.NASA.gov 13 March 2003 For more than a century astronomers thought that the Great Red Spot was the biggest thing on Jupiter. Not anymore. Images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have revealed something at least as large.
The Great Dark Spot. "I was totally blown away when I saw it--a dark cloud twice as big as Earth swirling around Jupiter's north pole," says Bob West, a planetary scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. |
By Robert Roy Britt
Senior Science Writer 23 October 2003 |
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