Wow, apparently Jupiter has lost one of it's "bands". Check out this picture.

The same storm system has been raging on Jupiter for hundreds of years (as far as we know, that's how long we've been able to see it). Looks like mebbe some changes are finally happening in its atmosphere?

That is cool! and weird...

Wow, apparently Jupiter has lost one of it's "bands". Check out this picture.

Hmmm

lol i had that thought too pk

I noticed that too, but it's still missing a band.

The color on the poles is what made me think of it. It may be missing a band, or it's just more prominent on one face of the planet. I don't think they're identical locations for both images.

probably our methane emissions finally warmed that sumbish up too.

Breaker breaker come in earth this is rocket ship number 27 aliens ****** over the carbinator in engine number 4 i'm going to try to refuckulate it and land on juniper hopefully you got some space weed over.

^TPB. ROFL

I would be more inclined to believe this picture if you could see the great red spot in both pictures.

Like PK said, I think it's two different pics from different locations.

Well you can't get a picture from the other side when you can't see the other side.

I believe it. There were countless articles on it from NASA, Space.com, Bad Astronomy, etc. They say this happens every so often. This is just one of the first few times we've actively observed it happening.

Here's one link. Not from NASA or Space.com but still.

http://www.newscient...s-a-stripe.html

The article says we observed this happening when Pioneer 10 flew by in the 1990s.

Apparently, when it passed too close to the sun, it bleached that stripe right off. =]

The pole's colors changed, too.

Maybe it happened because of America's carbon foot print.

skimmer.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/05/checking_in_on_saturn.html