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)