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.
Hubble telescope captures Jupiter’s Great Red Spot contracting
3 days ago · 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. The ...
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot: A Swirling Mystery - NASA
Aug 4, 2015 · Trapped between two jet streams, the Great Red Spot is an anticyclone swirling around a center of high atmospheric pressure that makes it rotate in the opposite sense of hurricanes on Earth. Understanding the Great Red Spot is not easy, and it’s mostly Jupiter’s fault.
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.
NASA's Hubble Watches Jupiter's Great Red Spot Behave Like a …
5 days ago · Astronomers have observed Jupiter’s legendary Great Red Spot (GRS), an anticyclone large enough to swallow Earth, for at least 150 years. But there are always new surprises – especially when NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope takes a close-up look at it. Hubble’s new observations of the famous red storm, collected 90 days between December 2023 to […]
Jupiter's Great Red Spot is being squeezed, Hubble Telescope …
3 hours ago · Related: Jupiter's Great Red Spot is 40 times deeper than Mariana Trench Located 22 degrees south of Jupiter's equator, positioned on the edge of the Jovian atmosphere's South Equatorial Belt, the ...
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.
How Did Jupiter Get Its Great Red Spot? | Scientific American
Jul 12, 2024 · New research suggests the Great Red Spot we see on Jupiter today is an entirely different giant storm from the one astronomers observed more than three centuries ago. By Phil Plait. A view of...
Hubble Shows Winds in Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Are Speeding Up
Oct 7, 2024 · 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.