Webb finds never-before-seen structures above Jupiter's Great Red Spot - NASASpaceFlight.com

Webb finds never-before-seen structures above Jupiter's Great Red Spot - NASASpaceFlight.com

Using the joint NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) James Webb Space Telescope, a group of scientists has discovered a variety of never-before-seen features in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere. The features were found in the atmospheric region above the iconic Great Red Spot—a high-pressure region in Jupiter’s atmosphere that produces a massive anticyclonic storm that has been visible to astronomers since 1831. Before the latest observations of the region, scientists believed the region was unremarkable in nature …