Jupiter ‘s great red spot

These images of Jupiter's Great Red Spot were made using data collected by the Hubble Space Telescope and the Gemini Observatory on April 1, 2018.   NASA, ESA, and M.H. Wong (UC Berkeley) and team Along with new mapping of Jupiter's lightning, the images reveal that the dark patches in the planet's Great Red Spot are holes in its cloud cover, and not different types of cloud. A glimpse of Jupiter's turbulent weather An illustration of lightning, convective towers, deep water clouds, and clearings in Jupiter's atmosphere. NASA, ESA, M.H. Wong (UC Berkeley), and A. James and M.W. Carruthers (STScI)

Astronomers just stitched together an unprecedented portrait of Jupiter in infrared — and realized its Great Red Spot is full of holes New images of Jupiter reveal that its  Great Red Spot  has holes. The infrared portrait of the planet also shows that lightning bolts form alongside 40-mile-high towers of turbulent clouds. Astronomers used NASA's  Hubble Space Telescope , the  Juno  spacecraft that orbits Jupiter, and the Gemini Observatory on Earth to gather some of the sharpest-ever infrared images of the planet.