The Great Red Spot isn't just wide — it's deep, too. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It's hard to imagine the sheer scale of ...

Most people recognize Jupiter as the largest known planet in our solar system, but there’s another eccentric quality about the planet that helps it stand out from all the rest. That, my friends, is ...

It's one of the most iconic destinations in the solar system: Jupiter's Great Red Spot, moving around the planet like a wandering eye. But the famous storm is filled with plenty of mysteries. Here's ...

Jupiter is the largest known planet in our solar system, but even that isn’t the gas giant’s most discernible feature – that title belongs to the Great Red Spot, a powerful storm that has been raging ...

Data collected by NASA’s Juno spacecraft during its first pass over Jupiter’s Great Red Spot in July 2017 indicate that this iconic feature penetrates well below the clouds Other revelations from the ...

Having been continuously observed since 1830, Jupiter's Great Red Spot (GRS) has fascinated researchers. But despite recent reports that the clouds involved are shrinking, the storm continues to be ...

(Right) Jupiter as seen by the JWST (Left) a close up of the Great Red Spot, the solar system's largest storm. | Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, Jupiter ERS Team, J. Schmidt, H. Melin, M. Zamani Using ...

The atmosphere of Jupiter is quite well known for its violent storms, the largest of which has been raging on in a counterclockwise swirl for more than 100 years: the Great Red Spot. The legendary ...

Jupiter's Great Red Spot (GRS) has fascinated researchers for nearly 200 years, having been continuously observed since 1830. A new study suggests that the clouds are shrinking, but not in ways ...

The Great Red Spot—the iconic, swirling eye of Jupiter, a persistent storm that could swallow Earth whole—has more surprises yet. Scientists plumbing the planet’s depths from afar have now found that ...

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