Jupiter has its eye on you: image

30 October 2014 - 14:27 By Times LIVE
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Jupiter
Jupiter
Image: NASA/ ESA/ A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center)

Hubble caught this image while observing Jupiter's Great Red Spot (GRS) storm on April 21, 2014, when the shadow of Ganeymede swept across the centre of the storm.

This gives the biggest planet in our solar system the look of having a pupil in the heart of its 16,093-kilometre diameter “eye.”

To put that in contest, Earth as a diameter of 12,742 kilometres

Jupiter has a 142,984 km diameter at the equator.

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