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Sharpest View of Jupiter From Earth
The National Geographic reports that this super crisp photograph of Jupiter was captured using a new computer-assisted process and a 27-foot telescope in Chile. The sharp image shows "features as small as 180 miles (300 kilometers) across." The project's leader Frank Marchis calls it a "new form of adaptive optics."
Posted on October 7, 2008
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Jupiter is Growing Another Red Spot
The BBC reports that Jupiter is growing another red spot as multiple storms merge together. The new spot is half the size of the Great Red Spot Jupiter is well-known for. The new smaller spot is called Red Jr.
The gas giant is growing another red spot, which US space agency (Nasa) astronomers have nicknamed "Red Jr".
Both red spots are actually raging storms in Jupiter's cloud layer, but scientists don't yet know how they get their characteristic brick colour.
Red Jr is about half the size of the Great Red Spot and almost exactly the same colour, Science@Nasa reports.
The new storm goes by the official name of Oval BA. It was first observed in 2000, when three smaller spots collided and merged.
The article says scientists do not know what causes the red color in the spots.
Posted on March 7, 2006
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