Jupiter getting a new set of stripes?

Jupiter is changing its stripes, perhaps because its seasons are changing, scientists reported Thursday.

The orbiting Hubble Space Telescope is capturing some of the most dramatic atmospheric changes ever documented, the team at NASA and the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore reported.

White areas of the planet's cloud bands are turning brown and brownish areas are lightening up, the researchers said.

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Mmmm. This could get interesting.

I wonder though if the recent addition of RSJ (Red Spot Junior) means Jupiter is going through its own version of 'climate change'? Many cloud features have changed, albeit on a small (but noticeable) scale in the past 10 to 15 years, most notably the shrinking and fading of the Great Red Spot (since the Voyager encounters in '79).