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Bookmark or Share- ELI5:Jupiters Great Red Spot and why it has lasted for such a ... - RedditThe great red spot only showed up a few hundred years ago. Jupiter has constant giant, nearly earth-sized storms, and IIRC, several of them collided into a giant superstorm nearly four times the width of Earth. It should last for a few hundred more years at the most. I remember reading somewhere that its started to get smaller recently.
- Jupiter's Giant Red Spot is Shrinking: A comparison of the ... - RedditThe team traced the evolution of the Great Red Spot, analyzing its size, shape, color and drift rate. They also looked at the storm’s internal wind speeds, when that information was available from spacecraft. The new findings indicate that the Great Red Spot recently started to drift westward faster than before." NASA Feature:
- Jupiter's great red spot may not be the original one ... - RedditAn 1879 observation placed the size of the spot at 24,200 miles (39,000 kilometers) along its longest axis. But now, it currently spans 8,700 miles (4,000 kilometers) on its longest axis. Unit conversion error? 8700 mi =~ 14000 km
- Jupiter's Great Red Spot is not the same one Cassini observed ... - RedditEuropa casting a shadow onto Jupiter's Great Red Spot. This is a multiple composite made from real image data acquired by NASA's Galileo spacecraft on May 22, 2000 and Sept. 19, 1997, and Cassini on Dec. 29, 2000
- What makes Jupiter's giant red spot red? : r/askscience - RedditIn three dimensions, the Great Red Spot is essentially shaped like a wedding cake, so the cloud-tops at the center of the spot are at very high altitudes where there's a lot more ultraviolet light. You can end up producing all kinds of odd substances through UV photochemistry of trace substances in the atmosphere, and the working hypothesis at ...
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