Say hello to Red Jr. These Hubble Space Telescope images, released last week, are the sharpest views yet of a second red storm high in Jupiter’s atmosphere. About half the diameter of the planet’s venerable Great Red Spot (right of box in left image), the newer storm was white when it arose 6 years ago from the merger of three oval storms first seen in the 1930s.
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