Pictures of the Great Red Spot
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Picture by the Hubble Space Telescope of the storms in the atmosphere of Jupiter. Just notice how much more detail is visible in the photograph taken by Voyager 1 in the photograph just below this one - especially in the larger pictures you get when you click on these small pictures.
A picture of Jupiter's Great Red Spot and White Ovals taken by Voyager 1 in 1979. The Great Red Spot is a giant storm - over 20,000 kilometers wide - about twice as wide as Earth.
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Picture of the planet Jupiter's Great Red Spot taken by Voyager 1. We know that the Great Red Spot existed for at least the last 300 years. The Great Red Spot is the largest weather system in our solar system.
Picture of an ammonia ice cloud near Jupiter's Great Red Spot by NASA's Galileo spacecraft. The ammonia ice is shown in light blue on the top left-hand side. The ammonia in this cloud comes from deep inside Jupiter's atmosphere.
This is a false-color photograph. The reddish-orange areas are high-level clouds. Yellow areas are mid-level clouds. The green areas are lower-level clouds.
The ammonia ice clouds are shown in light blue. These ammonia clouds are at a middle- and high altitude-level within Jupiter's atmosphere.
Picture of the temperatures around Jupiter's Great Red Spot. The Photopolarimeter-Radiometer on NASA's Galileo spacecraft made these measurements.
White areas are the hottest, red is somewhat colder and black is the coldest. Jupiter's Great Red Spot is the coldest region in this picture of Jupiter.
Some questions about these pictures of the Great Red Spot on Jupiter
Lets see what you have learned from these pictures ...
- What is the Great Red Spot on Jupiter?
- At least how old is the Great Red Spot?
- How big is the Great Red Spot?
- Which chemical are found in Jupiter's clouds?
- What is the hottest: Jupiter's Great Red Spot or the areas surrounding it?
- Which spacecraft took the pictures with the most detail? Voyager or the Hubble Space Telescope. Why?
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