According to new images collected by astronomers, it would appear that one of the most prominent clouds on Jupiter has disappeared, almost over night. Images of the gas giant, taken on May 9, reveal a smooth and common area right where the Southern Equatorial Belt should have been. Because the feature is now missing,... |
13 May 2010
06:06 GMT |
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The Great Red Spot on the gas giant Jupiter is undoubtedly the largest storm in the solar system, battering the surface of the planet continuously for many centuries. This weather system is very difficult for researchers to see through, but new investigations from a number of ground-based telescopes have recently rev... |
17 March 2010
03:40 GMT |
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While discussions over climate change are raging on back on Earth, it may be that we are not the only planet in the solar system to experience this phenomenon. According to new readings from the Hubble and Keck telescopes, Jupiter may currently be in the midst of a very violent period of global warming, as evidenced ... |
29 October 2009
14:05 GMT |
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Data collected between 1996 and 2006 seems to prove that one of Jupiter's most prominent features, its Great Red Spot (GRS), a colossal storm with a diameter twice that of the Earth, is shrinking at a slow speed. Other supermassive weather disturbances have already appeared to challenge its status on the planet.... |
10 March 2009
02:57 GMT |
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What was until now a party of one appears to be turning into a rather crowded gathering of red spots in the Jovian atmosphere. The Great Red Spot and its little sister, the Little Red Spot anticyclone, were joined relatively recently by yet another storm that turned from bright white to red, in what astronomers like ... |
26 May 2008
03:56 GMT |
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The solar system's youngest storm, the Little Red Spot on Jupiter, has the highest wind speeds ever detected on any other planet, according to a team of researchers conducting observations with NASA' New Horizon spacecraft, the Hubble Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory's Very Large T... |
22 May 2008
02:52 GMT |
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There is a storm on Jupiter that has been raging across its atmosphere for the last three centuries or so. We call it the Great Red Spot, however our understanding of what has powered it for such a long time is limited, although it bears a small resemblance to the hurricanes that occur on our planet from time to time... |
11 April 2008
04:21 GMT |
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