Hubble Captures Crisp Views of Jupiter's Latest Storms
This latest image of Jupiter, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope on on Aug. 25, 2020, captures a magnificent view of the Great Red Spot, a larger-than-Earth hurricane, along with a remarkable new storm shaped like a caterpillar (upper left) brewing in the planet's northern hemisphere. The image also features Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), and M. H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley) and the OPAL team Two gigantic storms appear in this latest Hubble photo of Jupiter — the familiar Great Red Spot that dominates the planet's southern hemisphere and a new tempest that bubbled up alongside the peach-colored North Temperate Belt (NTB) in mid-August . Dubbed the NTB Outbreak it now extends more than halfway around the planet. The outbreak's genesis are storm systems d eep within Jupiter's atmosphere that punched their way to the upper cloud deck and injected fresh ammonia ice and water 19 miles (30 km) above the visible ...