Articles for tag: Astronomy, GreatRedSpot, JupitersStorm, OurSolarSystem, PlanetaryScience

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The Great Red Spot: Jupiter’s Enduring Storm

Suhail Ahmed

  For more than three centuries, astronomers have watched a bruised, blood-red oval sliding across Jupiter’s face, a storm so huge it could once swallow Earth whole. Yet for all our telescopes, probes, and computer models, Jupiter’s Great Red Spot remains an unsolved riddle written in wind and color. Why has this storm lasted so ...

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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Is Shrinking

Suhail Ahmed

  Through a telescope, Jupiter looks eternal – a striped giant with a brick-red eye that never seems to blink. But the reality is messier and far more exciting: the , shifting, and speeding up at the edges, and every new data set seems to complicate the plot. For planetary scientists, this isn’t a sad ...