The latest image of super-planet, Jupiter has revealed the size of a new storm that's brewing.
Captured on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope on August 25 when Jupiter was 406 million miles from Earth, NASA reports a “white, stretched-out storm travelling around the planet at 350 miles per hour (560 kilometres per hour)”.
The storm erupted on August 18 as two more followed at the same latitude.
The crisp image shows the storms as layers and ribbons of orange, white and beige-toned colour trailing behind the Great Red Spot – a super-storm big enough to swallow Earth.
Although it is shrinking, the Great Red Spot measures 15,771 km across.
Space researchers have not been able to reason why the super-storm is shrinking.
Also captured to the left of the image is the icy moon Europa, believed to hold potential ingredients to life.
The latest Hubble image, released today, is part of a yearly map of the entire planet. The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency.
SHARE ME