Jupiter's Great Red Spot is a swirling storm so big that it could swallow Earth READ MORE: True age of Jupiter's Great Red Spot REVEALED It's a swirling mass of crimson clouds, more than 8,000 ...

Jupiter’s GRS is big enough to swallow the Earth and keep ... Astronomers measured the Great Red Spot’s size, shape, brightness, color, and vorticity over a full oscillation cycle.

Jupiter's moons: Names, number and exploration — How big is Jupiter? What we do know for sure about the Great Red Spot is that it's shrinking. An 1879 observation placed the size of the spot at ...

Observations from the 1800s indicated that Jupiter’s Great Red Spot was once more than four times the diameter of Earth, but now, the storm is just big enough to fit a little more than one Earth ...

The most recognizable storm in the solar system used to be so big that it could fit three whole Earths. Now, it has room for only one. Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is shrinking, and has been for ...

(Compare that with big storms on Earth ... concluding the storm penetrates some 300 miles into Jupiter's atmosphere. Observations of the Great Red Spot show that it's shrinking.

Berkeley fluid dynamicist Philip Marcus and his team analyzed high-resolution images of the Great Red Spot and compared them to another big storm on Jupiter. They found that what goes on in the ...

Jupiter’s signature feature — its Great Red Spot — might not be the same dark ... The Great Red Spot may help seed these storms — it’s so big that it obstructs the flow of gas around ...

The venerable Hubble Space Telescope has watched Jupiter's Great Red Spot (GRS) oscillating, as though it were being squeezed in and out roughly every 90 days. Why this huge anticyclone ...

The storm, which is big enough to comfortably swallow Earth, is appropriately (if not creatively) known as Jupiter’s Great Red Spot. The Great Red Spot has been a fixture of Jupiter’s cloudy ...

(Credit: NAS /ESA/HST) Talk about extreme weather. The solar system’s biggest and baddest storm, Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, is so loud and violent that it heats up the giant planet’s atmosphere. Above ...