The unexpected observations, which Hubble took over 90 days from December to March, show that the Great Red Spot isn't as stable as it appears.
New observations of Jupiter's Great Red Spot captured by the Hubble Space Telescope show that the 190-year-old storm wiggles like gelatin and shape-shifts like a squeezed stress ball.
Although storms are generally considered unstable, the Great Red Spot has persisted for nearly two centuries.A time lapse of the images shows the vortex "jiggling" like gelatin and expanding and contracting over time. The research team also detected the gas phosphine within the storm, which could play "a role in generating those mysterious" red colors that make the Great Red Spot so iconic, said study coauthor Leigh Fletcher, a professor of planetary science at the UK's University of Leicester, in a statement.
"To the untrained eye, Jupiter's striped clouds and famous red storm might appear to be static, stable, and long-lived over many years," Fletcher said.
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