Huge storms on Jupiter
Two biggest storms in solar system are about to happened!
Storm #1 is the Great Red Spot, twice as wide as Earth itself, with winds blowing 350 mph. The behemoth has been spinning around Jupiter for hundreds of years.
Storm #2 is Oval BA, also known as "Red Jr.," a youngster of a storm only six years old. Compared to the Great Red Spot, Red Jr. is half-sized, able to swallow Earth merely once, but it blows just as hard as its older cousin.
Photo: Jupiter's two red spots
Amy Simon-Miller of the Goddard Space Flight Center said that closest approach is going to be on the 4th of July. Two storms are converging. Amy Simon-Miller is monitoring the storms using the Hubble Space Telescope. "The Great Red Spot is not going to 'eat' Oval BA or anything like that." But the storms' outer bands will pass quite close to one another—and no one knows exactly what will happen.
Photo: Red Oval BA
The color of the Great Red Spot itself is a mystery. A popular theory holds that the storm dredges up material from deep inside Jupiter's atmosphere, lifting it above the highest clouds where solar ultraviolet rays turn "chromophores" (color-changing compounds) red. A beefed-up Oval BA could suddenly do the same.
Some amateur astronomers are already monitoring this event
Storm #1 is the Great Red Spot, twice as wide as Earth itself, with winds blowing 350 mph. The behemoth has been spinning around Jupiter for hundreds of years.
Storm #2 is Oval BA, also known as "Red Jr.," a youngster of a storm only six years old. Compared to the Great Red Spot, Red Jr. is half-sized, able to swallow Earth merely once, but it blows just as hard as its older cousin.
Amy Simon-Miller of the Goddard Space Flight Center said that closest approach is going to be on the 4th of July. Two storms are converging. Amy Simon-Miller is monitoring the storms using the Hubble Space Telescope. "The Great Red Spot is not going to 'eat' Oval BA or anything like that." But the storms' outer bands will pass quite close to one another—and no one knows exactly what will happen.
The color of the Great Red Spot itself is a mystery. A popular theory holds that the storm dredges up material from deep inside Jupiter's atmosphere, lifting it above the highest clouds where solar ultraviolet rays turn "chromophores" (color-changing compounds) red. A beefed-up Oval BA could suddenly do the same.
Some amateur astronomers are already monitoring this event
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