The largest storm in our Solar System, Jupiter’s Giant Red Spot (GRS), has long fascinated astronomers with its massive size and mysterious behavior. Recent Hubble Space Telescope observations have revealed that the GRS not only changes size but also appears to be “jiggling.” New imagery taken over 90 days shows the GRS behaving like a stress ball, with white clouds resembling a squeezing hand.
NASA’s Amy Simon, director at the Goddard Space Flight Center, noted that the size oscillation of the GRS is unexpected and lacks hydrodynamic explanations. The observations have implications for studying hurricanes on Earth, as the GRS interacts with wind jet streams in a similar way to how sandwich slices bulge out when there’s too much filling.
The team behind the research is still investigating possible explanations for the GRS’s strange behavior but will likely examine it closer now that they know its unusual characteristics.
Source: https://futurism.com/the-byte/jupiter-giant-red-spot-weird