Jupiter's Shrinking Spot
The Great Red Spot's size is decreasing faster than previously thought.
By Liz Kruesi
Nov 26, 2014 6:00 AMNov 12, 2019 4:39 AM
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot was considerably larger when the Voyager probes zoomed by in 1979, shown here, than when Hubble saw it in 2014. | 1979 Jupiter, NASA/JPL/Bjorn Bjorn Jonsson
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