The spot we see today isn’t the same one the Italian astronomer Cassini discovered centuries ago, research shows.
A pair of massive thunderstorms have been spotted swirling in Jupiter's "South Equatorial Belt" and are likely unleashing ...
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot—a rotating storm that is so large ... Today’s spot swirls in the gas giant’s Southern Hemisphere, and its winds can reach speeds of nearly 300 miles an hour.
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Collaborative work by amateur and professional astronomers has helped to resolve a long-standing misunderstanding about the composition of Jupiter's clouds. Instead of being formed of ammonia ice -- ...
New research from a team of citizen scientists challenges the old idea that Jupiter's visible clouds are formed of ammonia ...
CREDIT: NASA/ESA/Amy Simon (NASA-GSFC)/Joseph DePasquale (STScI) Jupiter’s Great Red Spot—a rotating storm that is so large it could swallow Earth—isn’t what it used to be. Research has ...
Behold, the giants! The Hubble Space Telescope has completed a decade of observing Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
NASA’s Juno spacecraft, which began orbiting Jupiter on July 4, 2016, is the first spacecraft to peer below Jupiter’s clouds ...
"These [white patches] are giant thunderstorms," John Rogers ... enough to stay intact for long periods, like Jupiter's famous Great Red Spot, and will instead get pulled apart, Rogers explained.
Storms are also circulating in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere, with the biggest one called the Great Red Spot, three times our Earth’s diameter. This giant hurricane-like storm has been raging on ...