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Great Red Spot) Enhanced view of Jupiter's Great Red Spot region. Below the Great Red Spot are two more cyclonic storms. The Voyager image was among the first to reveal the incredibly turbulent flow within Jupiter's zonal bands, which from afar look stable and placid. Prominent oval feature, 14,000 km/8,500 mi wide and some 30,000 km/20,000 mi long, in the atmosphere of the planet Jupiter, south of its equator. It was first observed in 1664. Space probes show it to be an anticlockwise vortex of cold clouds, coloured possibly by phosphorus. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The highest wind speeds in the smaller, more recent storm have reached 640 kilometers per hour, the same as those of the planet's long-observed Great Red Spot. Jupiter's famous Great Red Spot now has a sidekick. New views of the Great Red Spot have done much to answer the overriding question: Why has this hurricane lasted so long, since before Galileo peered at it through his telescope in 1611? |
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