Our intrepid astronomer Dan Joyce has forwarded this spectacular shot of Jupiter,
photographed by his colleague Don Parker. As Dan e-mailed to us:
"Jupiter is dominating the southern sky this summer. Anyone can see it in a clear
sky to the southeast before midnight and in the south thereafter for the rest of the
season. The interesting feature is that the Great Red Spot has been joined by two little
red spots nearby. The GRS, for scale, extends almost two-and-a-half earth diameters
and is a centuries old anti-cyclonic storm system with winds measured by the Voyager
I spacecraft at nearly 350 miles per hour. Jupiter itself weighs about 318 times the
earth."
Thanks Dan!
-Tom Skilling
