Hubble: Weather Watcher of the Solar System

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Hubble: Weather Watcher of the Outer Solar System

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Hubble's powerful eye scouts the outer planets once an Earth year, shedding light on giant planet atmospheres.

Storms in the outer solar system have researchers puzzled — and Hubble is here to help.

Jupiter's Great Red Spot has been shrinking for decades — yet it’s getting slightly taller even as its reduces in width, a new study revealed Tuesday. The storm’s shape change might also affect its increasingly orange color. And last month, NASA released images of a large storm on Neptune that’s shrinking instead of falling apart; researchers previously thought the storm would dissipate as it moved towards the planet’s equator.

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