Tuesday 3 May 2011

APOD 2011 May 2 Jupiters Great Red Spot from Voyager 1

Explanation: It is a hurricane twice the size of the Earth.

It has been raging at least as long as telescopes could see it, and shows no signs of slowing. It is Jupiter's Great Red Spot, the largest swirling storm system in the Solar System. Like most astronomical phenomena, the Great Red Spot was neither predicted nor immediately understood after its discovery. Still today, details of how and why the Great Red Spot changes its shape, size, and c

Source:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110502.html

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