HONG KONG: The new maps presented by scientists provide every experience being faced by Jupiter from storms, cloudy days and changes in atmospheric chemistry. All these experiences have been put together in the new maps showing the planet in a completely new way.
The news maps have also helped know new features about the planet. Amy Simon, a planetary scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, was of the view that whenever they have given a look at Jupiter, they have been surprised and were left wondering that something exciting is going on and this time as well the same has happened.
The maps are considered to be the first in a series of annual portraits of the solar system’s outer planets. Simon and her colleagues have come up with two global maps of Jupiter. They have made maps based on the observations from the Hubble space telescope’s high-performance Wide Field Camera 3.
Both the maps have shown back-to-back rotations of the planet, which may allow to determine the speed of Jupiter’s winds. Another important finding made from the maps is that the Great Red Spot continues to shrink and getting more circular in shape.
The spot has been doing the same for years. Now, the Great Red Spot seems to be more orange than red and the core is especially having intense color. The researchers have even found a wave in Jupiter’s North Equatorial Belt. It is for the second time that researchers have spotted it.
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