Great Red Spot - Wikipedia
The Great Red Spot is a persistent high-pressure region in the atmosphere of Jupiter, producing an anticyclonic storm that is the largest in the Solar System. It is the most recognizable feature on Jupiter, owing to its red-orange color whose origin is still unknown.
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot: A Swirling Mystery - NASA
Aug 4, 2015 · With tumultuous winds peaking at about 400 mph, the Great Red Spot has been swirling wildly over Jupiter’s skies for the past 150 years—maybe even much longer than that.
Jupiter's Great Red Spot: Everything you need to know | Space
Sep 1, 2023 · Jupiter's Great Red Spot is the largest storm in the solar system and has been raging for hundreds of years. We explore the phenomenon in more detail here.
Hubble telescope captures Jupiter’s Great Red Spot contracting
Oct 11, 2024 · New observations of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot captured by the Hubble Space Telescope show that the 190-year-old storm wiggles like gelatin and shape-shifts like a squeezed stress ball.
Great Red Spot | Facts, Size, & Definition | Britannica
Oct 16, 2024 · Great Red Spot, a long-lived enormous storm system on the planet Jupiter and the most conspicuous feature of its visible cloud surface. It is generally reddish in colour, slightly oval in shape, and approximately 16,350 km (10,159 miles) wide—large enough to engulf Earth.
NASA's Hubble Watches Jupiter's Great Red Spot Behave Like a …
Oct 9, 2024 · Jupiter’s iconic Great Red Spot, a storm larger than Earth, has fascinated astronomers for over 150 years. But thanks to NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, we’re now seeing this legendary storm in a whole new light. Recent observations show that the Great Red Spot is wobbling and fluctuating in size.
NASA's Hubble Watches Jupiter's Great Red Spot Behave Like a …
Oct 9, 2024 · Jupiter's birthmark is an unbelievably huge storm that’s mysteriously crimson red in color. It looks like a bloodshot cycloptic eye staring back at Earth. The anticyclone churns along a southern mid-latitude cloud belt and has survived in Jupiter's turbulent atmosphere for at …
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Getting Taller as it Shrinks, NASA Team …
Mar 13, 2018 · Though once big enough to swallow three Earths with room to spare, Jupiter’s Great Red Spot has been shrinking for a century and a half. Nobody is sure how long the storm will continue to contract or whether it will disappear altogether. A new study suggests that it hasn’t all been downhill, though.
Jupiter's Great Red Spot is deeper than we thought, NASA Juno ... - NPR
Nov 9, 2021 · NASA's Juno spacecraft sweeps over Jupiter's Great Red Spot and makes a 3D map of the giant storm. The findings could shed light on gas giant exoplanets in distant solar systems.
Hubble Shows Winds in Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Are Speeding Up
Sep 27, 2021 · Like the speed of an advancing race car driver, the winds in the outermost "lane" of Jupiter's Great Red Spot are accelerating – a discovery only made possible by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, which has monitored the planet for more than a decade.