Here’s a look at Jupiter from 2010, when its Southern Equatorial Band (SEB) disappeared. Yes, gone…
The SEB is the band where the Great Red Spot (GRS) resides, so it created an eerie contrast seeing the GRS against a blank background. It returned in late 2010. For more on that, please see the news brief from December 1, 2010 on Spaceweather. Here is my map used in the Spaceweather news update, showing the extent of the “revival” of the SEB.
The link below will take you to an animation of a full rotation of Jupiter made from images taken over a two week period in August, 2010 through a Celestron 14 telescope and Point Grey Flea3m camera. The images were mapped to a sphere in WinJupos and the rotation was animated, to illustrate a full rotation of the planet.
http://exosky.space/images/Fullrot-aug.gif (it will open in a new link)
