NASA's Hubble Captures Storm in Jupiter's Great Red Spot Speeding Up
News 18If you have seen pictures of the beautiful “king” of our solar system — Jupiter –you must have noticed a giant crimson spot on the planet. Now, scientists at NASA and the University of California, Berkeley, and Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States, have discovered that the winds in the outer “lanes” of the storm are speeding up. Using data gathered by the Hubble Space Telescope over 11 years, scientists were able to detect the changes in the spot and analyse the changes in speed and direction each time Hubble observed Jupiter. About what the changes could mean, Michael Wong, who led the analysis, said in a statement, “That’s hard to diagnose since Hubble can’t see the bottom of the storm very well.” According to Wong, anything below the top of the gas clouds are invisible in Hubble’s data. “With Hubble, we have the precision we need to spot a trend,” said Amy Simon, one of the authors of the study and NASA scientist, in the statement.
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