Galileo Zooms in on Jupiter's Red Spot
What does the largest storm system ever recorded look like close-up? This
storm system is
Jupiter's
Great Red Spot and it was
captured recently in
detail by the
robot spacecraft Galileo
now in orbit around
Jupiter. Using
real images from three color filters, the Galileo team was able to compute
what a person would see if able to float just above this
ancient rotating
cloud system.
But don't get too close - remember that
Jupiter's Great Red
Spot
is a cold, high pressure area more than twice as wide as
planet Earth.