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Jupiter’s most famous storm is slimming down, spinning up and behaving in ways that challenge what scientists thought they knew about giant-planet weather. The Great Red Spot, once a planetary icon ...
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A massive storm has been raging on Jupiter for centuries, and, for the most part, has appeared very serious. A new series of detailed images, however, revealed that the famous red cyclone can get a ...
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot (GRS) is a ten-thousand-mile-wide tempest that has been roiling in the planet’s atmosphere for centuries, but new data from a pair of studies unveiled at a NASA press ...
The Great Red Spot on Jupiter, the largest known storm in the solar system, is apparently shifting shapes, according to a recent report. A 90-day study, from December to March, of Jupiter using the ...
A sequence of images captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope showed how much the giant storm changed shape as it traveled within the planet’s atmosphere. By Robin George Andrews The Great Red Spot ...
High-resolution images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot have revealed that it’s not as stable as we thought. Instead, the Spot is squeezing in and out, with NASA ...
Astronomers say the Great Red Spot of Jupiter might have a subtle counterpart currently being called the Great Cold Spot. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) ...
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Jupiter’s atmosphere is a dynamic laboratory where complex interactions between rapid rotation, deep internal convection, and magnetic forces produce a rich tapestry of weather phenomena. Chief among ...