Jupiter

Jupiter has been in the news recently because of a new red spot which developed on the planet. Being a storm only the size of the Earth or so, it was fairly puny in Jovian terms, and so promptly got swallowed up by the Great Red Spot only a couple of months after first being spotted.

Because of this, The Big Picture has today posted lots of pretty photographs of Jupiter and its moons. The image above is of Io (which is about the size of our moon) orbiting the planet. Jupiter, it’s fair to say, is really quite big.

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