Friday, November 26, 2010

Jupiter's missing stripe returns

November 24, 2010 - USA Today
A brown stripe on Jupiter, the king of planets, has returned after a springtime fade, astronomers reported Wednesday.
Called the South Equatorial Belt (SEB), the atmospheric band south of Jupiter's equator had turned white, earlier this year. In November, however, Filipino amateur astronomer, Christopher Go of Cebu City, observed a bright spot in the unusually whitened belt, according to a University of California, Berkeley, statement. Observations from large telescopes in Hawaii, suggest the stripe has returned.
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