Jupiter's 3 Red Spots (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Jupiter's 3 Red Spots

Caption

Hubble Space Telescope close-up of three red ovals on Jupiter, the smallest of which (3,000 miles in diameter) is new and may merge with the Great Red Spot (10,000 miles in diameter) in August. Red Spot Jr. is the medium-sized red oval, about 5,000 miles across.

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Imke de Pater, Michael Wong, Philip Marcus and Xylar Asay-Davis (UC Berkeley), and Chris Go (Cebu, Philippines)

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