Jupiter‘s clouds are amazing, it’s like watching a painting move. The thing you will remember most about Jovian is its Great Red Spot (GRS). It’s a massive anticyclonic storm that’s existed for more than 350 years. On 3 April 2017, the GRS was measuring 16,350 km (10,159 mi) in width, or about 1.3 times as wide as Earth. […]
Category: Juno
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope photographed stunning light shows on the poles of the largest planet in the solar system, Jupiter. The extraordinary vivid glows shown in the photographs are known as auroras. They are created when high-energy particles, from solar wind or other sources, enter a planet’s atmosphere near its magnetic poles and collide with […]