Rain storms have pounded most parts of the country since Saturday, brought by unusual cloud bands over neighboring Zambia and Mozambique.
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The very small center was located along the eastern edge of the convection, while low-level cloud bands formed east of the center.
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Colors are especially vivid in the " Great Red Spot, " and in the red, brown and yellow streaks in the planet's cloud bands.
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The hindwings are orange-yellow with an antemedian transverse line of sooty black and a median indistinct blackish cloud band followed by two lunulate bands.
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The transverse band from the apex to the inner margin is much more basad and much more defined, also straighter and the submarginal cloud band is much fainter.
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In 1986, images from Voyager 2 showed Uranus as an almost featureless planet in visible light, without the cloud bands or storms associated with the other giant planets.
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This suggests that cometary impacts have been bringing substances from the cloud bands to the surface, where further study may disclose some of the secrets of Jupiter's gaudy colors.
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The upper-level low also influenced Tanya in giving it some subtropical characteristics, including a comma-shaped cloud band and maximum winds far from the center of the storm at the time.
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Sulfur and sulfur-based compounds are believed to contribute to the vivid colors splashed across Jupiter's complex cloud system-- the Great Red Spot, and streaks of red, orange and brown in the planet's cloud bands.
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Finally, if you have a small telescope, you may see both the cloud bands on Jupiter, as well as its four major moons, which will, in part, be the subject of my next column.
