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Picture of one of Jupiter's White Ovals. Some of these white ovals have existed for at least 50 years.
The oval is about 9 000 kilometers across. (The Earth is 12,756 kilometers in diameter.)
All white oval structures show very similar internal structures.
Picture of Jupiter's white ovals in true color by NASA's Galileo spacecraft. These white ovals rotate in a clockwise direction. The cut-off white oval on the left is 9000 kilometers in diameter.
Pictures of merging white oval storms on Jupiter by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
These white ovals are from about 8,000 kilometers to 12,000 kilometers wide.
The picture at the top shows three white oval storms - these storms had coexisted for about 60 years.
In the second image the two white storms on the left had merged.
The third picture shows this big white oval approaching the oval called BA.
The picture at the bottom shows the white ovals merged into one, large storm.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL/WFPC2
Upper picture of one of Jupiter's white ovals by the Hubble Space Telescope.
Lower picture by the Galileo spacecraft's photopolarimeter radiometer - used to measure temperature.
For the picture at the bottom, darker means lower temperatures. Jupiters' white ovals are clearly colder than the surrounding areas on Jupiter. (The white ovals are not white-hot spots.)
Some questions about these pictures of white ovals on Jupiter
Lets see what you have learned from these pictures ...
- How large is a typical white oval?
- Describe what a white oval looks like.
- Are white ovals hotter or colder than the surrounding areas on Jupiter?
- What is a white oval?
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