Jupiter (WFC3/UVIS, April 21, 2014)
stsci_2014-24b May 15th, 2014
Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center)
Jupiter's monster storm, the Great Red Spot, was once so large that three Earths would fit inside it. But new measurements by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveal that the largest storm in our solar system has downsized significantly. The red spot, which has been raging for at least a hundred years, is only the width of one Earth. What is happening? One possibility is that some unknown activity in the planet's atmosphere may be draining energy and weakening the storm, causing it to shrink.
Provider: Space Telescope Science Institute
Image Source: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2014/news-2014-24
Curator: STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- ID
- 2014-24b
- Subject Category
- A.1.1.2
- Subject Name
- Jupiter
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, and A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center)
- Release Date
- 2014-05-15T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2014/news-2014-24
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble, Hubble, Hubble
- Instrument
- WFC3/UVIS, WFC3/UVIS, WFC3/UVIS
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Green, Red
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- 395, 502, 631
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- 6.9745786, 23.0501333
- Reference Dimension
- Reference Pixel
- Scale
- Rotation
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- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- STScI
- URL
- http://hubblesite.org
- Name
- Space Telescope Science Institute Office of Public Outreach
- outreach@stsci.edu
- Telephone
- 410-338-4444
- Address
- 3700 San Martin Drive
- City
- Baltimore
- State/Province
- MD
- Postal Code
- 21218
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- http://hubblesite.org/copyright/
- Publisher
- STScI
- Publisher ID
- stsci
- Resource ID
- STSCI-H-p1424b-f-1000x1000.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI-H-p1424b-f-1000x1000.tif
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- Metadata Date
- 2022-07-06T00:00:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
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