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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is wider than Earth, carries winds above 400 mph and has raged for nearly two centuries — a storm no Category 5 hurricane can match

Earth’s strongest hurricanes last days and peak near 200 mph. Jupiter’s giant anticyclone doubles that speed, spans more than ...
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Jupiter’s red spot is shrinking fast and it’s getting weird

Jupiter’s most famous storm is slimming down, spinning up and behaving in ways that challenge what scientists thought they knew about giant-planet weather. The Great Red Spot, once a planetary icon ...
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Data from NASA’s Cassini mission refutes prevailing theory on Jupiter’s red spot

According to a new analysis performed by NASA’s Cassini unmanned spacecraft, the big red spot on Jupiter is actually a result of simple chemicals being broken apart by sunlight in the planet’s ...