... Hubble s Jupiter and Shrinking Great Red Spot . ... It's also known for a giant swirling storm system, the Great Red Spot , featured in this sharp Hubble image from April 21. Nestled between Jupiter-girdling cloud bands, the Great Red Spot itself could still easily swallow Earth, but lately it has been shrinking. The most recent Hubble observations measure the spot to be about 10,250 miles (16,500 kilometers) across. ... Publications with keywords: Jupiter - Great Red Spot . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2015 October 24 . Jupiter in 2015 . ... Explanation: Two remarkable global maps of Jupiter's banded cloud tops can be compared by just sliding your cursor over this sharp projection (or follow this link) of image data from the Hubble Space Telescope. ... Posing next to it (lower right) is Oval BA, also known as Red Spot Junior. ... About APOD | ...

Hubble Observations Shed New Light on Jupiter Collision . Was it a comet or an asteroid? ... Their initial findings, combined with results from other space-borne and ground-based telescopes, shed new light on Jupiter's atmospheric winds, its immense magnetic field, the mysterious dark debris from the impacts, and the composition of the doomed comet itself. ... Hubble's ultraviolet observations show the motion of very fine impact debris particles now suspended high in Jupiter's atmosphere. ...

WFPC2 . Images: version1 , version2 . Catalogs: Version 1 HDF-S , HDF-N ;Version 2 HDF-S . STIS . ... NICMOS . Images: Camera 3 , V2 of psf-convolved STIS 50CCD on NICMOS . ... Images: WFPC2 FF , STIS FF ; Version2: WFPC2 FF , STIS FF , NICMOS FF . Catalogs: Version2 WFPC2 FF , STIS FF , NICMOS FF . ... Check the instrument specific technical pages for a description of the data products and the implemented data reduction steps: STIS , WFPC2 , NICMOS , Flanking Fields . ...

... 50 Greatest Mysteries . ... Hubble shows Jupiterт??s Great Red Spot is smaller than ever measured . ... GREAT RED SPOT . Jupiter s trademark Great Red Spot a swirling anti-cyclonic storm larger than Earth has shrunk to its smallest size ever measured. According to Amy Simon of NASA s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, recent NASA Hubble Space Telescope observations confirm that the Great Red Spot now is approximately 10,250 miles (16,500 kilometers) across. ... Bead Show | ...

Amalthea . Jupiter V . Amalthea [am-al-THEE-uh] is one of Jupiter's smaller moons. ... It was also the first moon of Jupiter to be discovered since Galileo's discovery of the four Galilean Moons in 1610. Amalthea is extremely irregular, having dimensions of about 270x165x150 kilometers in diameter. ... Discovered by . ... Topographic Map of Amalthea . ... As with all maps, it is the cartographer's interpretation; not all features are necessarily certain given the limited data available. ...