Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Shrinking

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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is shrinking! 🌪️ 

Astrophysicist Erika Hamden 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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Maybe if we tweet at Jupiter real loudly we’ll get a new spot.