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Hubble images Jupiter, our Solar System’s most beautiful planet

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Geekz Snow
Hubble images Jupiter, our Solar System’s most beautiful planet

Arguably our Solar System’s most beautiful planet, Jupiter, has been imaged in stunning detail by the Hubble Space Telescope.

The image shows more intense colors than previous images of the planet, showing off the dramatic cloud formations which move in bands, giving the planet its striped appearance.

Bands of clouds move in different directions, due to the differing thicknesses of ammonia ice clouds.

The darker bands are areas with thinner clouds, while the lighter bands have thicker clouds.

And there’s a visible feature you might not have seen before: beneath the red “Eye”, there is a long, thin brown shape.

This is a cyclone, which spins in the opposite direction of the Eye.

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