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Storm Merger on Jupiter

Dec. 30, 2000
Taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, a small white spot, probably a thunderstorm, lies to the south of a larger, brown spot on Jupiter.


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At the beginning of this movie clip, created from images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, a small white spot, probably a thunderstorm, lies to the south of a larger, brown spot on Jupiter. The white spot moves counterclockwise around the brown spot and breaks up. A part of the white spot is absorbed by the brown spot.

Cassini is a cooperative mission of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages Cassini for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C.

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