Jupiter also hasa Little Red Spot that formed in 2000. In 2008, a third red spot that hadpreviously been a white, oval-shaped storm was seen on Jupiter's surface. Butit is the Great Red Spot that ...

This year, Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, which is actually a massive hurricane characteristic of the planet, has shown it’s still shrinking, with its long axis around 150 miles shorter than it was ...

Jupiter's Great Red Spot is such a crazy, turbulent storm that it creates sound waves that travel hundreds of miles up and actually heat the planet's upper atmosphere. The Great Red Spot is a vast ...

But the Great Red Spot bottoms out well past Jupiter’s cloud base. “So, it’s not just a meteorological feature,” he says. Instead, its circulation must be drawing energy from much deeper ...

Jupiter's Great Red Spot, arguably its most famous feature, has been studied for about 300 years. For some time, the planet-size storm has been shrinking at a more rapid clip.

Map of Jupiter's red spot interior created. PASADENA, Calif., March 16 (UPI) -- NASA says new thermal images from powerful Earth-based telescopes have produced the first detailed interior map of ...

The atmosphere above Jupiter's Great Red Spot is strangely hot, scientists say; acoustic or gravity waves may be the ... “We just wanted to make the maps first and then assess things later, ...

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is shrinking, but that does not necessarily mean that it is dying. Earlier this year, amateur astronomers caught the red spot seemingly starting to fall apart, with rose ...

Jupiter's famous Great Red Spot and other stormy surface features extend 30 to 100 kilometres below the enigmatic surface of the gas giant, a new radio map of the planet's atmosphere has revealed.

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot just might be a great big radiator for the planet’s upper atmosphere, according to new research. Scientists have been trying to uncover the reason why temperatures in ...

The counterclockwise winds of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, shown in visible light (left) and in a velocity map (right). Image: NASA, ESA, Michael H. Wong (UC Berkeley) ...