And baby makes three: Fresh imagery shows that a storm system has changed color in the planet Jupiter's turbulent atmosphere, creating a third "Red Spot" to join the centuries-old Great Red Spot and the 2-year-old Red Spot Jr.The third reddish storm is just a fraction of the size of the other two, lying to the west of the Great Red Spot in the same latitude band of clouds.
The new red spot was previously colored white, like several other storms whirling nearby on Jupiter. The change to a red color indicated that the storm's clouds were rising to roughly the same altitude as the Great Red Spot's cloud tops, the Baltimore-based Space Telescope Science Institute said in an image advisory released Thursday.
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