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The Great Red Spot, or GRS, is an anticyclone, or a large circulation of winds in Jupiter’s atmosphere that rotates around a central area of high pressure along the planet’s southern ...
The momentary black spots are shadows cast by Jupiter's moons. Jupiter's Great Red Spot rotates counterclockwise, with a period of about 4.5 Earth days, [24] or 11 Jovian days, as of 2008. Measuring 16,350 km (10,160 mi) in width as of 3 April 2017, the Great Red Spot is 1.3 times the diameter of Earth. [21]
Voyager 1 time-lapse movie of Jupiter approach (full-size video) Jupiter's Great Red Spot, an anti-cyclonic storm larger than Earth, as seen from Voyager 1.
We love Juno’s stunning photos of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, but when it comes to giant storms, the Great Red Spot has some stiff competition.
Jupiter’s striking Great Red Spot has puzzled astronomers for years. Now, they think they know just how old it is and how the cyclone formed in Jupiter’s atmosphere.
The Great Red spot on Jupiter is considered as an Anticyclone storm system. [1] Anticyclonic cloud system taken above the Pacific Ocean by the STS-41-B crew.. An anticyclonic storm is a storm with a high-pressure center, in which winds flow in the direction opposite to that of the flow above a region of low pressure. [2]
Jupiter's giant red spot shrinking, Hubble images show. Andrew Tavani. Updated July 14, 2016 at 10:13 PM. By Irene Klotz. ... The so-called "Great Red Spot" is a violent storm, which in the late ...
Time-lapse sequence from the approach of Voyager 1, showing the motion of atmospheric bands and circulation of the Great Red Spot. Recorded over 32 days with one photograph taken every 10 hours (once per Jovian day). See full size video.