This isn't really about earth - but not sure where else the thread should go.

 

Jupiter has lost a coloured band in its southern hemisphere...

 

thought people might find this interesting.

 

Wonder what it means!?

Big change for such a small period of time. Must have been a huge amount of energy involved.

It is not the first time, the Jupiters South Equatorial Belt, (SEB), has disappeared before and it seems to happens at irregular intervals:

 

This is not the first time that the SEB has disappeared from view.

 

"The SEB fades at irregular intervals, most recently in 1973-75, 1989-90, 1993, 2007, 2010," said John Rogers, director of the British Astronomical Association's Jupiter Section. "The 2007 fading was terminated rather early, but in other years the SEB was almost absent, as at present."

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/missing-jupiter-cloud-belt-mystifies-scientists-100521.html

Could it have something to do with solar activity?