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Cloud
Top Patterns
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Belts (dark) and zones (light)
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Great red spot
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storm raging since at least
1664 when first seen by Robert Hooke
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Changes size slightly, but
about as big as 3 Earths
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white ovals (two recently
merged)
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brown ovals
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patterns are pretty similar
in northern and southern hemispheres
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Clouds in 3 layers
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Ammonium: NH3
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Ammonium hydrosulfide: NH4SH
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Water
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Galileo Probe
failed to detect water clouds
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may have been a hole in the
water clouds
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Mystery: what causes the
colors?
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