The Great Red Spot has been measured at speeds around 400 miles per hour (mph). Compare that to hurricanes on Earth, where destructive storms like Hurricane Maria have maxed out at 175 mph.

The Great Red Spot is an anticyclone, rotating counterclockwise once about every six days, according to The Planets, and produces winds up to 580 mph (933 kph), according to Smithsonian.

Jupiter’s iconic Great Red Spot (GRS), a huge storm that has raged for nearly two centuries, is slowly disappearing. New research suggests that this colossal vortex, swirling at speeds up to 450 ...

The Great Red Spot was not dying—at least not any faster than it had been before. To the amateurs, it had looked as though strands of the storm were tearing away.

The gravity data revealed that the Great Red Spot’s atmospheric “roots” extend no more than 500 kilometers below the cloud tops of Jupiter. And it likely doesn’t have a sharp cut off at ...

The Great Red Spot is an ancient storm, one that’s been seething for at least 350 years. But it’s a storm, and like all storms, it will one day die down.

For more than 150 years, the Great Red Spot has intrigued astronomers. But this new behavior, captured by the Hubble telescope between December 2023 and March 2024, sheds new light on this giant ...

The winds of the Great Red Spot consistently blow more than 200 miles per hour, but they can reach speeds over 400 mph further out. Since the Spot’s winds blow in a counterclockwise direction, ...

The biggest and strongest storms to hit Earth are around 1,000 miles across, with winds upwards of 200 mph. Hurricane Patricia, for example, is among the strongest ever recorded on Earth with ...

The Great Red Spot, a storm larger than the Earth and powerful enough to tear apart smaller storms that get drawn into it, is one of the most recognizable features in Jupiter’s atmosphere and ...