Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Shrinking

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is shrinking! 🌪️

Astrophysicist @ErikaHamden-o2q explains how images from the Hubble Space Telescope show the iconic anticyclone in Jupiter’s southern hemisphere getting smaller since the 1990s. Once large enough to fit three Earths, it’s now only about the size of one. Scientists believe the storm stayed strong by absorbing smaller storms, but that supply may be running out. Could we be witnessing the slow disappearance of one of the most iconic features in our solar system?

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