Storn winds blow in Jupiter's Little Red Spot

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In this quasi-true-color view of Jupiters Little Red Spot generated using a New Horizons-LORRI mosaic in the red and green channels and a Hubble Space Telescope 410 nm map in the blue channel the LRS appears with distinctly redder color than the sout ...
In this quasi-true-color view of Jupiter's Little Red Spot, generated using a New Horizons-LORRI mosaic in the red and green channels and a Hubble Space Telescope 410 nm map in the blue channel, the "LRS" appears with distinctly redder color than the south tropical disturbance to the north or the small oval to the southeast. This image appears in the June 2008 issue of the Astronomical Journal. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/HST

Using data from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft and two telescopes on or near Earth, an international team of scientists has found that one of the solar system’s largest and newest storms – Jupiter’s Little Red Spot – has some of the highest wind speeds ever detected on any planet.


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