LONDON: New images from the Hubble telescope have revealed one of Jupiter’s main features is shrinking.
Dubbed ‘the Great Red Spot’, the anti-cyclonic storm akin has been shrinking for several years, NASA says, with the latest images showing the spot is now about 240 kilometres shorter than it was this time last year.
‘Every time we look at Jupiter, we get tantalizing hints that something really exciting is going on,’ Amy Simon, a planetary scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, said. ‘This time is no exception.’
The images also revealed an atmospheric wave in Jupiter’s North Equatorial Belt, something that hadn’t been seen since the Voyager 2 probe passed by the gas giant many decades ago.
‘Until now, we thought the wave seen by Voyager 2 might have been a fluke,’ Glenn Orton of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said. ‘As it turns out, it’s just rare!’
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