{"id":198741,"date":"2024-11-03T11:25:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T17:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/nasas-hubble-watches-jupiters-great-red-spot-behave-like-a-stress-ball"},"modified":"2024-11-03T11:25:49","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T17:25:49","slug":"nasas-hubble-watches-jupiters-great-red-spot-behave-like-a-stress-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/nasas-hubble-watches-jupiters-great-red-spot-behave-like-a-stress-ball","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Hubble watches Jupiter\u2019s Great Red Spot Behave Like a Stress Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-hubble-watches-jupiters-great-red-spot-behave-like-a-stress-ball2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have observed Jupiter\u2019s legendary Great Red Spot (GRS), an anticyclone large enough to swallow Earth, for at least 150 years. But there are always new surprises \u2014 especially when NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope takes a close-up look at it.<\/p>\n<p>Hubble\u2019s new observations of the famous red storm, collected 90 days between December 2023 to March 2024, reveal that the GRS is not as stable as it might look. The recent data show the GRS jiggling like a bowl of gelatin. The combined Hubble images allowed astronomers to assemble a time-lapse movie of the squiggly behavior of the GRS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we knew its motion varies slightly in its longitude, we didn\u2019t expect to see the size oscillate. As far as we know, it\u2019s not been identified before,\u201d said Amy Simon of NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, lead author of the science paper published in The Planetary Science Journal. \u201cThis is really the first time we\u2019ve had the proper imaging cadence of the GRS. With Hubble\u2019s high resolution we can say that the GRS is definitively squeezing in and out at the same time as it moves faster and slower. That was very unexpected, and at present there are no hydrodynamic explanations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have observed Jupiter\u2019s legendary Great Red Spot (GRS), an anticyclone large enough to swallow Earth, for at least 150 years. But there are always new surprises \u2014 especially when NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope takes a close-up look at it. Hubble\u2019s new observations of the famous red storm, collected 90 days between December 2023 to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}