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Shawn Hopkins submitted a new blog post:
Jupiter's Great Red Spot Now Not as Great
Jupiter's Great Red Spot Now Not as Great
Continue reading the Original Blog PostDon't get me wrong, it's still pretty great, but Jupiter's Great Red Spot is the smallest scientists have ever seen it.
According to the most recent Hubble Space Telescope observations, the colossal storm that makes up the spot is no "only" 10, 250 miles across. You could still plop the entire Earth in that badboy, easy, but it's a far cry from its glory days. The spot was 14,500 miles across in 1979 and was estimated to be 25,500 miles in the 1800s....