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Hubble Snaps Baby Pictures of Jupiter's 'Red Spot Jr.'
OR RELEASE: 1:00 pm (EDT) May 4, 2006
PHOTO NO.: STScI-PRC06-19 HUBBLE SNAPS BABY PICTURES OF JUPITER'S "RED SPOT JR." NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is giving astronomers their most detailed view yet of a second red spot emerging on Jupiter. For the first time in history, astronomers have witnessed the birth of a new red spot on the giant planet, which is located half a billion miles away. The storm is roughly one-half the diameter of its bigger and legendary cousin, the Great Red Spot. Researchers suggest that the new spot may be related to a possible major climate change in Jupiter's atmosphere. These images were taken with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys on April 8 and 16, 2006. To see and read more about the research on the Web, visit: http://hubblesite.org/news/2006/19 http://www.berkeley.edu/news/ For more information, please contact: Ray Villard Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md. (Phone: 410-338-4514; E-mail: ) Robert Sanders University of California, Berkeley, Calif. (Phone: 510-643-6998; E-mail: ) Amy Simon-Miller NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. (Phone: 301-286-6738; E-mail: ) Imke de Pater University of California, Berkeley, Calif. (Phone: 510-642-1947, E-mail: ) The Hubble Space Telescope is an international cooperative project between NASA and the European Space Agency. The Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore conducts Hubble science operations. The Institute is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., Washington. -end- |
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