CANADA: It makes our most turbulent terrestrial storms look like mere pipsqueaks. But remarkable new Hubble footage shows that Jupiter’s Great Red Spot – an anticyclonic storm system twice the size of Earth – is shrinking and turning orange. Is this evidence of Jovian climate change? And could the planet’s violent storm finally be giving way to more clement conditions, at least by Jupiter’s dramatic standards?
Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, is a gas giant dominated by hydrogen with some helium and smaller amounts of other gases, a mixture that resembles the composition of the early solar nebula and results in some staggeringly beautiful weather. The planet’s cloud systems, which counter-rotate in zones and belts, with eastward and westward winds reaching 100 metres per second, are among the solar system’s most spectacular sights and come in a blaze of different colours – red due to ammonia, white due to ammonium hydrosulphide, and brown and blue due to additions to water ice.
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