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Jupiter loses belt
Published on 5 Jun 2010 at 00:00.
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Saturday 5th June 2010
Jupiter’s South Equatorial Belt (SEB), now missing – crosses the Great Red Spot in this picture taken in 2000 by NASA’s Cassini Oribiter.
And although the current disappearance probably resulted from intense storm activity within Jupiter’s atmosphere, planetary scientists find themselves at a loss to explain what the trigger was. They also don’t [...]