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ArticleBody:If the moon is said to be made of cheese , then Jupiter’s famed Great Red Spot is more like a bowl of JELL-O. A new look at this enormous anticyclone on our solar system’s largest planet shows it jiggling. These observations were taken with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope over 90 days between December 2023 to March 2024 and allowed astronomers to assemble time-lapse footage of GRS’ wobbly behavior.
Amy Simon ; Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale The GRS is an anticyclone—a large wind system that rotates counterclockwise around a center of high pressure in a planet’s southern hemisphere and clockwise in its northern. Jupiter’s GRS is big enough to swallow the Earth and keep it engulfed in stormy conditions for at least 150 years. Hubble monitors Jupiter and all of the outer solar system planets through the Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy program .
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