But even these mega-storms are nothing compared to Jupiter’s Great Red Spot (GRS). Around the width of Earth, with winds of 400 mph, this giant system has been churning over Jupiter for hundreds of ...

A giant that oscillates. The immense Great Red Spot on Jupiter, known for being the largest storm in our Solar System, is not as unchanging as it appears. A recent observation reveals an astonishing ...

Jupiter’s iconic great red spot is the biggest storm in the Solar System. The spot is so big that an entire earth could fit inside it and still have some space left. It is a large anticyclonic ...

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Jupiter’s signature feature — its Great Red Spot — might not be the same dark spot seen on the giant planet more than three centuries ago. From 1665 to 1713, astronomer Giovanni Domenico ...

In a solar system full of wonders, Jupiter’s Great Red Spot still stands out. This lushly red oval is obvious even through small telescopes, looking like a baleful eye staring out from the ...

In the 1660s, Italian astronomer Gian Domenico Cassini discovered something while looking at the planet Jupiter: a massive spot now known as the planet’s signature. Known as the Great Red Spot ...

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is one of the most famous and spectacular sights in the Solar Systems. Wider than the diameter of the Earth, the spot is a giant vortex of winds up to 400 kilometers per hour.

Jupiter's Great Red Spot is a large storm that has persisted for at least 190 years. Enhanced Image by Gerald Eichstadt and Sean Doran (CC BY-NC-SA) based on images provided Courtesy of NASA / JPL ...

The planet Jupiter is particularly known for its so-called Great Red Spot, a swirling vortex in the gas giant's atmosphere that has been around since at least 1831. But how it formed and how old ...

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Jupiter’s iconic Great Red Spot is a massive storm that has swirled within the atmosphere of the largest planet in the solar system for years. But astronomers have debated just how old the vortex ...