NASA photographed two fused storms on Jupiter

The two storms that turned anticlockwise had been near several months ago, splitting apart, and beginning to merge again.

The storm merger on Jupiter was recorded by the Juno spacecraft.(Photo: NASA).

Juno spacecraft camera captures the merger of two storms on Jupiter , a gas giant with a constantly changing atmosphere, in late December. Amateur scientist Tanya Oleksuik reprocesses colors, NASA then posted the photo on its official website on 3 March.

The two white ovals in the orange strip on the left, near the center of the image, are two merging storms. They are a type of storm that rotates counterclockwise, like the Great Red Spot , a giant storm famous on Jupiter.

NASA has been tracking the bigger storm for years. It merged with many other storms and gradually increased in size. The new photo was taken by Juno in a timely manner as the merger could only take a few days."This phenomenon attracted the attention of scientists because the two storms approached each other a few months ago but then separated," NASA said.

The merger may be the result of turbulence as it approaches Oval BA , a larger storm north of the two merging storms. Oval BA is the second largest vortex in Jupiter's atmosphere , just after the Great Red Spot. During this study of Jupiter, Juno also brought scientists the best images to date of Oval BA.

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