Soooo. The non-goof balls made the ‘Gread Red Spot’ white.
They substitute the actual color with colors and shades that each represent a specific temperature range, in order for people with a brain to be able to readily see which parts of Jupiter are hotter or colder than each other. A "temperature map" as it were. Sorry that went above your head, maybe you could be good at something else like chair moistening.
“The infrared images were artificially colored in blue, white, green, yellow and orange, according to the US-French research team, to make the features stand out.
infrared images
artificially colored
to make the features stand out
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