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Jupiter's Great Red Spot is Shrinking | Space Science Full HD Video

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Channel: CoconutScienceLab · 2014 · Science & Technology

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More space news and info at: http://www.coconutsciencelab.com - observations as far back as the late 1800s estimated the Great Red Spot to span about 41,000 kilometers at its widest point. This is wide enough to fit three Earths comfortably side-by-side. In 1979 and 1980 the NASA Voyager probes measured the spot at a shrunken 23,335 kilometers across. Now, the Hubble telescope has spied this feature to be smaller than ever before. 

Jupiter's Great Red Spot is a churning anticyclonic storm. It appears in images of Jupiter as a conspicuous deep red eye swirling in layers of pale yellow, orange and white. Winds inside the Jovian storm rage at immense speeds, reaching several hundred kilometers per hour.

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Credit: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)

Science Credit: A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), G. Orton (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), J. Rogers (University of Cambridge, UK), and M. Wong and I. dePater (University of California, Berkeley) 

Acknowledgment: H. Hammel (SSI and AURA) and R. Beebe (NMSU)

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