Jupiter’s Great Red Spot jiggles like JELL-O

Share If the moon is said to be made of cheese (it’s not), then Jupiter’s famed Great Red Spot (GRS) is more like a bowl of JELL-O. A new look at this enormous anticyclone on our solar system’s largest planet shows it jiggling. These observations were taken with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope over 90 days between December 2023 to March 2024 and allowed astronomers to assemble time-lapse footage of GRS’ wobbly behavior. The observations are detailed in a study published October 9 in the The Planetary Science Journal. “While we knew…

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