The department of astronomy and space, in collaboration with Ibn Sina e-learning and continuing education units at the college of science held a virtual seminar via Google Meet service entitled “Jupiter’s Great Red Spot” with the participation of a number of students, professors and specialists from inside and outside the college.
It was administrated by the lecturer Hassanein Hassan Ali and Assistant lecturer Hibba Aladdin with the aim to discuss a range of scientific information about Jupiter, which is one of the largest planets in the solar system and the third brightest planet at night after the Moon and Venus, where the average distance from the sun to Jupiter is 778 million km. Then the lecturers talked about the red spot that is a storm emerged in Jupiter’s southern hemisphere, the largest of its kind in the solar system, causing crimson-colored clouds that spin counterclockwise at wind speeds that exceed those in any storm on Earth, adding that it has slowly changed over the years.
