A New Jupiter Oval Rotates
Explanation:
Even
Jupiter can do the twist.
Large cloud systems on
Jupiter rotate, and the
newly formed oval
pictured above is no different.
This
new oval formed earlier this year
from the collision of two smaller ovals:
an occurrence not unlike two large storms
merging into one
huge hurricane.
Even this new swirling storm, however, is small compared to
Jupiter's Great Red Spot.
The
above-animated frame dithers between two pictures of the
new oval taken roughly an hour apart.
The
Galileo spacecraft currently orbiting the giant
Jovian planet captured the pictures.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
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