Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Looking Like A Swirl Of Cream In Your Coffee

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Looking Like A Swirl Of Cream In Your Coffee

This might look like a splash of cream in your coffee — but in fact it’s Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, imaged by NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft.

It’s swirling rather faster than the spoon in your cup could manage, too — in fact, the winds that carry the clouds that create the spot move in excess of 400 mph, creating raging storms three and a half times the size of Earth. Gulp. The image was actually created recently using three black and white negatives captured decades ago. [NASA]

Image by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Looking Like A Swirl Of Cream In Your Coffee


The Cheapest NBN 50 Plans

It’s the most popular NBN speed in Australia for a reason. Here are the cheapest plans available.

At Gizmodo, we independently select and write about stuff we love and think you'll like too. We have affiliate and advertising partnerships, which means we may collect a share of sales or other compensation from the links on this page. BTW – prices are accurate and items in stock at the time of posting.