Todays pic is one of those rare animated ones, although not large and not too clear as an image it is very enlightening, it comes courtesy of the Cassini spacecraft.
The Great Dark Spot
March 12, 2003: For more than a century astronomers thought that the Great Red Spot was the biggest thing on Jupiter. Not anymore. Images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have revealed something at least as large.
The Great Dark Spot.
"I was totally blown away when I saw it--a dark cloud twice as big as Earth swirling around Jupiter's north pole," says Bob West, a planetary scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Rather than trying to source a single larger source of the piccy I thought I would post the page that this article is taken from, it can be found here. It contains some other interesting pics and science news regarding Jupiter.
Previous Pic Of The Day posts
11th Mar 03
09th Mar 03
08th Mar 03
07th Mar 03
06th Mar 03Courtesy of Garp
05th Mar 03Courtesy of Grouch
03rd Mar 03
The Great Dark Spot
March 12, 2003: For more than a century astronomers thought that the Great Red Spot was the biggest thing on Jupiter. Not anymore. Images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have revealed something at least as large.
The Great Dark Spot.
"I was totally blown away when I saw it--a dark cloud twice as big as Earth swirling around Jupiter's north pole," says Bob West, a planetary scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Rather than trying to source a single larger source of the piccy I thought I would post the page that this article is taken from, it can be found here. It contains some other interesting pics and science news regarding Jupiter.
Previous Pic Of The Day posts
11th Mar 03
09th Mar 03
08th Mar 03
07th Mar 03
06th Mar 03Courtesy of Garp
05th Mar 03Courtesy of Grouch
03rd Mar 03
Mine are even worse than that, if you imagine dropping a spider in alcohol and then in ink, allowing it to walk on the page and viewing the results, you'd then have a fair idea of my drawing skills.