Hubble Space Telescope/European Space Agency/NASA
A second red spot on Jupiter is at left.
ping
You know... astronomers lately are nowhere near as creative as their ancestors. The Greeks could look at a set of stars and see a great hunter named Orion with a club in one hand and a shield in the other, with his faithful hunting dog at his side and a great bull, Taurus, charging at him, all the while running from the scorpion who bit his shoulder and turned it red.
Nowadays, we get Jupiter's "Great Red Spot"... then Neptune's "Great Dark Spot" and now Jupiter has "Red Spot, Jr." I guess it could've been worse... "Lesser Red Spot."
:-)
Interesting.
Again, Bush's fault.
They're saying this as if the Great Red hasn't almost always had a companion storm.
It appears the flow is from right to left and the smooth flow becomes turbulent at the spot.
That is as the atmosphere flows around a stationary object it becomes clockwise cyclonic and turbulent. Stationary object/gas giant doesn't compute.
The turbbulence is present at the small spot but not as pronounced.i
I am certain global warming is at the root of this, all because Bush will not sign Kyoto.../sarc
Cool photo! I love looking at photos of Jupiter's storms. Amazing!
(Don't give 'em the clicks!)
Busted out and dusted off my scope last night as a matter of fact as Jupiter was at it's closest point to earth for 2006. This spot was very visible as was 3 bright moons.
Sure wish I could find the right camera/eyepiece adapter.
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