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Jupiter's Great Red Spot: A 300-year-old cyclone persists but is shrinking

  • Written by Donna Pierce, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Mississippi State University
Jupiter's Great Red Spot: A 300-year-old cyclone persists but is shrinkingJupiter's Great Red Spot.NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/ Gerald Eichstädt /Seán Doran

The Great Red Spot, a storm larger than the Earth and powerful enough to tear apart smaller storms that get drawn into it, is one of the most recognizable features in Jupiter’s atmosphere and the entire solar system. The counterclockwise-moving...

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