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 ...

(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 ...

The venerable Hubble Space Telescope has watched Jupiter's Great Red Spot (GRS) oscillating ... Jupiter is shrinking and used to be twice as big, mind-boggling study reveals 'I won't be surprised ...

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 ...

A recent study found that Jupiter was once twice the size that it is now, making it big enough to swallow up 2,000 Earths.

(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 ...

One thousand times as big as Earth, Jupiter is mostly comprised of gas and has no solid ground to help weaken the incredible red spot storm. 24/7 coverage of breaking news and live events ...