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Jam packed issues filled with the latest cutting-edge research, technology and theories delivered in an entertaining and visually stunning way, aiming to educate and inspire readers of all agesThe venerable Hubble Space Telescope has watched Jupiter's Great Red Spot oscillating, as though it were being squeezed in and out roughly every 90 days. over the decades and currently measures about 9,165 miles across .
Seemingly connected to this approximately 90-day oscillation in its westward drift is the squeezing of the GRS' shape seen by Hubble. So far, only one oscillatory period has been observed in full by Hubble. Simon leads the Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy program, which uses Hubble to image each of the four giant planets in the outer solar system — Jupiter,— at least once per year. However, Hubble's studies of the GRS were a separate project in addition to that.
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