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14 years 11 months ago #77540 by Seanie_Morris
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I know, I was also picturing a scene from 2010: Odyssey Two!

Everything about Jupiter is super-sized, including its colorful, turbulent atmosphere. But there's fresh evidence that one of the planet's most recognizable features, the Great Red Spot, is shrinking.
Voyager 1 captured this photo of the Great Red Spot and surrounding clouds when it flew by Jupiter in 1979.

The spot, which is actually an ancient monster storm that measures about three Earths across, lost 15 percent of its diameter between 1996 and 2006, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have found.


Full Story:
edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/04/02/ju...shrinking/index.html


Seanie.

Midlands Astronomy Club.
Radio Presenter (Midlands 103), Space Enthusiast, Astronomy Outreach Co-ordinator.
Former IFAS Chairperson and Secretary.

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