PIA19648: New Changes in Jupiter's Great Red Spot


New Changes in Jupiter’s Great Red Spot

Caption:

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The movement of Jupiter's clouds can be seen by comparing the first map to the second one in this animated pair of images. Zooming in on the Great Red Spot at blue (below, at left) and red (below, at right) wavelengths reveals a unique filamentary feature not previously seen.

Background Info:

Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 3 (WFPC3) was developed jointly by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland; the Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Maryland; and Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation, Boulder, Colorado.

Cataloging Keywords:

Name Value Additional Values
Target Jupiter
System Jupiter
Target Type Planet
Mission Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
Instrument Host Hubble Space Telescope
Host Type Space Telescope
Instrument WFPC3
Detector
Extra Keywords Atmosphere, Color, Map, Movie, Storm
Acquisition Date
Release Date 2015-10-13
Date in Caption
Image Credit NASA/ESA/GSFC/UCBerkeley/JPL-Caltech/STScI
Source photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA19648
Identifier PIA19648