Jupiter’s Great Red Spot has company.

[Binary_Bark]

Jupiter’s got a second giant spot.



Called the Great Cold Spot, this dark mark is twice as big as Earth, but cooler and more fickle than the planet’s famous (and similarly sized) Great Red Spot. The cool spot sits in Jupiter’s northern regions, not far from the stunning northern aurora in the planet’s atmosphere. The aurora may play a role in creating the newly detected dark mark, researchers report online April 10 in Geophysical Research Letters.

“We can’t be exactly sure how the spot forms,” says study coauthor Tom Stallard, a planetary scientist at the University of Leicester in England. “But we are sure it is there because we observed it numerous times.”

Full Article: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/jupiters-great-red-spot-has-company-meet-great-cold-spot

 

[Creag]

Would be interesting to learn if there was any input from Juno's orbit of Jupiter. Couldn't see it specifically in article.

 

[Binary_Bark]

Would be interesting to learn if there was any input from Juno's orbit of Jupiter. Couldn't see it specifically in article.

Will see what I can do.
/Keep y'all posted

 

[Binary_Bark]

Some news on Juno.

[video=youtube;lm2tAADgp8E]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm2tAADgp8E[/video]
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/juno/junotoolkit

 

[Creag]

Thank you, Squire. Bedtime reading

 

[Binary_Bark]

Thank you, Squire. Bedtime reading

Seems to be communication problems with Juno. Article Feb 2017. Cant find anything so far with a communication update..
https://astronomynow.com/2017/02/02...rs-cloud-tops-with-main-engine-still-offline/

 

[Creag]

Seems to be communication problems with Juno. Article Feb 2017. Cant find anything so far with a communication update..
https://astronomynow.com/2017/02/02...rs-cloud-tops-with-main-engine-still-offline/

Their twitter handle @NASAJuno shows that they have received recent feeds from the probe. Good news, for the time being.

 

[Solarion]

I wish I could see what the surface of Jupiter looks like. So mysterious.

 

[Swa]

And then the monoliths appear...

 

[Arthur]

And then the monoliths appear...

... followed by bone-beating apes who shortly afterwards jump into a spaceship.