Jupiter's Great Red Spot Now Just Pretty Good

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Jupiter's Great Red Spot Now Just Pretty Good

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May 22, 2014

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Jupiter's Great Red Spot, once estimated to be 41,000 kilometers across, is just 16,500 kilometers wide in the latest Hubble Space Telescope observations, and the shrinkage seems to be accelerating. Clara Moskowitz reports

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May 22, 2014

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