The first global map of the gas giant Jupiter, with its famed Great Red Spot towards the ... It is about 1.3 times wider than planet Earth. The winds of the Great Red Spot consistently blow more ...

Jupiter’s signature feature — its Great Red Spot — might not be the same dark spot seen on the giant planet more than three centuries ago. From 1665 to 1713, astronomer Giovanni Domenico ...

Jupiter's Great Red Spot is a swirling storm so big that it could swallow Earth READ MORE: True age of Jupiter's Great Red Spot REVEALED It's a swirling mass of crimson clouds, more than 8,000 ...

The venerable Hubble Space Telescope has watched Jupiter's Great Red Spot (GRS) oscillating, as though it were being squeezed in and out roughly every 90 days. Why this huge anticyclone, which has ...

If the moon is said to be made of cheese (it’s not), then Jupiter’s famed Great Red Spot (GRS) is more like a bowl of JELL-O. A new look at this enormous anticyclone on our solar system’s ...

The Great Red Spot of Jupiter is one of the solar system’s most astonishing marvels. An elliptical storm with inky swirls of burnt orange and dulled copper, it is longer than the Earth is wide ...

Jupiter’s iconic Great Red Spot is a massive storm that has swirled within the atmosphere of the largest planet in the solar system for years. But astronomers have debated just how old the ...

In the 1660s, Italian astronomer Gian Domenico Cassini discovered something while looking at the planet Jupiter: a massive spot now known as the planet’s signature. Known as the Great Red Spot ...

The Red Spot is the largest known storm in the solar system, taking up one-sixth the diameter of Jupiter itself. It’s so big that it could swallow Earth into its swirling oval of clouds ...

In a solar system full of wonders, Jupiter’s Great Red Spot still stands out. This lushly red oval is obvious even through small telescopes, looking like a baleful eye staring out from the ...

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is a high-pressure, rotating vortex that has stood the test of time. The cloud tops of this storm have been seen from Earth for more than 150 years.