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Date: October 28, 2021
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Measured in Depth for the First Time
Read More about Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Measured in Depth for the First TimeJupiter’s Great Red Spot is up there with the rings of Saturn and the blue marble of Earth for solar system icon status. In a study published today in Science, Weizmann Institute of Science researchers and their collaborators on NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter report that this spot – really a giant, persistent storm – extends to a depth of about 500 kilometers below the planet’s clouds.