Barcelona. (Editorial) .- Did you come out a great eye Cyclops Jupiter ? Seeing the photograph taken by the Hubble Space Telescope on April 21 and the information published on the website of NASA, so we might think. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The shocking image shows that within the Great Red Spot has appeared, in turn, a black spot like an eye. But what actually is the shadow of the moon Ganymede captured by the Hubble cameras, reports the Time .
The fantastical image of the supposed “ Eye of Jupiter ” was taken at the time that the Jovian moon eclipsed the planet’s surface. “For a moment Jupiter ‘looked’ like a big Cyclops” says NASA on its official website.
The Great Red Spot is the largest anticyclonic vortex of Jupiter. It was first observed in the seventeenth century. At first, they thought it was a huge mountain or plateau emerging from clouds. The winds that rotate around its periphery at speeds higher than a hurricane. Clouds that form it, rotating in the opposite direction to clockwise, it takes four to six days to complete one lap.
This giant atmospheric vortex has been reduced in size. It is estimated that it has a third since the late nineteenth century. Astronomers continue this process of decline since the 30s of last century, when the diameter of the vortex measuring about 40,000 kilometers, which means you then have fit inside three planets Earth.
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