Great Red Spot - Wikipedia
The Great Red Spot is a persistent high-pressure region in the atmosphere of Jupiter, producing an anticyclonic storm that is the largest in the Solar System. It is the most recognizable feature on Jupiter, owing to its red-orange color whose origin is still unknown.
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot: A Swirling Mystery - NASA
2015年8月4日 · Trapped between two jet streams, the Great Red Spot is an anticyclone swirling around a center of high atmospheric pressure that makes it rotate in the opposite sense of hurricanes on Earth. Understanding the Great Red Spot is not easy, and it’s mostly Jupiter’s fault. A planet a thousand times as big as Earth, Jupiter consists mostly of gas.
Jupiter's Great Red Spot: Everything you need to know | Space
2023年9月1日 · What is the Great Red Spot on Jupiter? The Great Red Spot is a huge elliptical-shaped anticyclone — a long-lasting area of high pressure on Jupiter that creates a persistent storm.
Great Red Spot | Facts, Size, & Definition | Britannica
2024年10月16日 · Great Red Spot, a long-lived enormous storm system on the planet Jupiter and the most conspicuous feature of its visible cloud surface. It is generally reddish in colour, slightly oval in shape, and approximately 16,350 km (10,159 miles) wide—large enough to engulf Earth.
Hubble telescope captures Jupiter’s Great Red Spot contracting …
2024年10月11日 · Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, the solar system’s largest storm, wiggles like gelatin and contracts like a stress ball, new observations from Hubble Space Telescope find.
NASA's Hubble Watches Jupiter's Great Red Spot Behave Like a …
2024年10月9日 · Astronomers have observed Jupiter's legendary Great Red Spot (GRS), an anticyclone large enough to swallow Earth, for at least 150 years. But there are always new surprises – especially when NASA's Hubble Space Telescope takes a close-up look at it.
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Getting Taller as it Shrinks, NASA Team …
2018年3月13日 · Though once big enough to swallow three Earths with room to spare, Jupiter’s Great Red Spot has been shrinking for a century and a half. Nobody is sure how long the storm will continue to contract or whether it will disappear altogether. A new study suggests that it hasn’t all been downhill, though.
Jupiter's Great Red Spot is deeper than we thought, NASA Juno ... - NPR
2021年11月9日 · NASA's Juno spacecraft sweeps over Jupiter's Great Red Spot and makes a 3D map of the giant storm. The findings could shed light on gas giant exoplanets in distant solar systems.
How Did Jupiter Get Its Great Red Spot? | Scientific American
2024年7月12日 · New research suggests the Great Red Spot we see on Jupiter today is an entirely different giant storm from the one astronomers observed more than three centuries …
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot - NASA
2024年5月7日 · The Great Red Spot, a swirling oval of clouds twice as wide as Earth, has been observed on the giant planet for more than 300 years. In 2021, findings from Juno showed that Jupiter’s storms are far taller than expected, with some extending 60 miles (100 kilometers) below the cloud tops and others, including the Great Red Spot, extending over ...