Uploaded December 2017 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Animation showing the rotation ofJupiter's Great Red Spot, which is, um, a great red spot in the atmosphere. It's actually a high-pressure anticyclone 16,000 kilometers across and at least 300 km deep. This animation uses images from the Juno spacecraft together with wind models generated in a computer to calculate how the winds blow and the atmosphere circulates inside the spot.
The animation is about 4 seconds long and repeats several times.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstadt/Justin Cowart
Original GIF: jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA22178
Animation showing the rotation ofJupiter's Great Red Spot, which is, um, a great red spot in the atmosphere. It's actually a high-pressure anticyclone 16,000 kilometers across and at least 300 km deep. This animation uses images from the Juno spacecraft together with wind models generated in a computer to calculate how the winds blow and the atmosphere circulates inside the spot.
The animation is about 4 seconds long and repeats several times.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstadt/Justin Cowart
Original GIF: jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA22178
