Thursday, June 28, 2007

Jupiter Changes Its Stripes

Image source: NASA / ESA / A Sanchez-Lavega / A Simon-Miller

David Shiga writes on New Scientist Space:

Jupiter's cloud patterns are undergoing dramatic changes, reveal new images by the Hubble Space Telescope. Similar transformations of the giant planet's clouds have been witnessed before, but never in such detail – and they have never been explained.

Hubble has been keeping an eye on Jupiter to provide context for close-up observations made by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, which flew by the solar system's largest planet in February on its way to Pluto.

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