Clyde's Spot on Jupiter Has Changed Into a Strange Alien Structure

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NASA's Juno spacecraft has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016. The spacecraft was launched to reveal the story of Jupiter's formation and its evolution.

Jupiter has more mass than all the other planets combined in our solar system. Its far-reaching gravity has shaped the orbits of planets, comets and asteroids throughout the solar system. its interior may harbor clues about what conditions were like, when the planet was formed from the primordial gas and dust 4.5 billion years ago.

During its 33rd low pass over the clouds of Jupiter, The spacecraft captured the intriguing evolution of a feature in Jupiter's atmosphere. This feature was known as the Clyde’s Spot.

The feature was named after the amateur astronomer Clyde Foster, who discovered it in 2020, using his own 14-inch telescope.

just two days after Foster’s initial discovery, Juno provided a detailed observations of Clyde’s Spot, which scientists determined was a plume of cloud material erupting above the top layers of Jupiter's atmosphere. It is located to the southeast of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, which is about 1.3 times as wide as Earth.

These powerful convective outbreaks occasionally occur in this latitude band, known as the South Temperate Belt. The initial plume subsided quickly, and within a few weeks it was seen as a dark spot.
Many features in Jupiter’s highly dynamic atmosphere are short lived, but the April 2021 observation from the spacecrafts Camera revealed that, nearly one year after its discovery, the remnant of Clyde’s Spot had not only drifted away from the Great Red Spot but had also that scientists call a folded filamentary region.
Credit: NASA

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