On April 15, during the 33rd flyby of Jupiter,

NASA

captured the intriguing evolution of a feature in the giant planet's atmosphere known as

"Clyde's spot."

The spot is named after amateur astronomer

Clyde Foster of Centurion

, who discovered it in 2020 using his own telescope.

On June 2, 2020, just two days after Foster's initial discovery, JunoCam provided detailed observations of "Clyde's Spot." Scientists determined it was a

column of clouds

erupting over the upper layers of the Jovian atmosphere just southeast

of Jupiter's Great Red Spot,

which is currently about

1.3 times wider than Earth

.

Many of the features of

Jupiter's

atmosphere

are short lived.

However, observation last April revealed that almost a year after its discovery,

"Clyde's Spot" had

not only drifted away from the Great Red Spot, but had also become a complex structure to which Scientists call it the

folded filamentous region

.

This region is twice the latitude and three times the longitude of the original location, and has the potential to

persist

for a long period of time.

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