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Jupiters changing face

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A bright, white, stretched-out storm moving at 560 km per hour (348 mph) appeared at Jupiter’s mid-northern latitudes on August 18, 2020.

While it’s common for storms to pop up in this region, often several at once, this particular disturbance appears to have more structure behind it than observed in previous storms. Trailing behind the plume are small, counterclockwise dark clumps also not witnessed in the past.

“This may be the beginning of a longer-lasting northern hemisphere spot, perhaps to rival the legendary Great Red Spot that dominates the southern hemisphere,” said astronomers from the Outer Planets Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) program.

Hubble shows that the Great Red Spot, rolling counterclockwise in the planet’s southern hemisphere, is ploughing into the clouds ahead of it, forming a cascade of white and beige ribbons.

The huge storm system is currently an exceptionally rich red color, with its core and outermost band appearing deeper red.

It now measures about 15,800 km (9,818 miles) across, and is still shrinking, as noted in telescopic observations dating back to 1930, but its rate of shrinkage appears to have slowed.

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