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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zahina Rishad" data-source="post: 7531257" data-attributes="member: 232243"><img src="http://www.spacedaily.com/images-lg/jupiter-august-2009-no-seb-may-2010-lg.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />In a development that has transformed the appearance of the solar system's largest planet, one of Jupiter's two main cloud belts has completely disappeared. "This is a big event," says planetary scientist Glenn Orton of NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab. "We're monitoring the situation closely and do not yet fully understand what's going on." Known as the South Equatorial Belt (SEB), the brown cloudy band is twice as wide as Earth and more than twenty times as long. The loss of such an enormous "stripe" can be seen with ease halfway across the Solar system. "In any size telescope, or even in large binoculars, Jupiter's signature appearance has always included two broad equatorial belts," says amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley of Australia. "I remember as a child seeing them through my small backyard refractor and it was unmistakable. Anyone who turns their telescope on Jupiter at the moment, however, will see a planet with only one belt--a very strange sight."<a href="http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Big_Mystery_Jupiter_Loses_A_Stripe_999.html" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Big_Mystery_Jupiter_Loses_A_Stripe_999.html" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Big_Mystery_Jupiter_Loses_A_Stripe_999.html" target="_blank">http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Big_Mystery_Jupiter_Loses_A_Stripe_999.html</a></blockquote>

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