North Equatorial Belt: Comparison of views from all orbits

2017-06-05 15:41 UT
Credit : NASA / SwRI / MSSS / John Rogers © cc by
Submitted By : Philosophia-47

The NEB has undergone extensive outbreaks of convective white spots (‘rifts’), and the PJ3 image was just preceding a new bright rift. The PJ4 image showed several bright rifts (X,Y,Z). The PJ6 image shows a less disturbed sector, but unexpectedly captures a striking anticyclonic vortex in the expanded northern NEB, apparently a new feature. –John Rogers.