> From jr@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk Mon Apr 1 09:27 MST 2002 Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 17:26:57 +0100 From: John Rogers Subject: Re: Jupiter Mar 30, 31 (GRS/BA/SSTC wos) Thank you for the latest images from March 29-31; here is the montage. Don Parker's images seem to confirm Antonio's view that the merged oval is now a single oval. Concerning the doubling on March 28, Paulo asked "Why there's still a wobbling?" Perhaps the two ovals' cores were still distinct and spiralling into each other then; or perhaps a single newly merged oval was oscillating before it stabilised. In Voyager movies, the Great Dark Spot on Neptune wobbled considerably, and a NEB barge on Jupiter oscillated too (between long-and-thin and short-and-fat). Also on the image sets we can note: >> The S.Eq.Dist. passed the GRS around March 22 but has not become any more visible as a result. >> The merged barge in NEB (opposite the p. end of the GRS) was nearly destroyed by that NEB rift on March 26, but it has now reappeared, although very small. Best wishes, John Rogers April 1.