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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 ...