Surface feature · Persistent anticyclonic storm
Great Red Spot
- Type
- Persistent anticyclonic storm
NASA/JPL · NASA media (public domain)
Overview
Scientific overview
Great Red Spot is a persistent anticyclonic storm in orbit around Jupiter.
Gallery
Dynamics of Jupiter's Great Red Spot in the Near-infrared
Dynamics of Jupiter's Great Red Spot in the NIR filter (756 nm) of the Galileo imaging system.
1997
NASA/JPL-Caltech · NASA media (public domain)
Observation
How this was captured
- Source
- NASA
- Observation date
- 1996-09-26
Sources
The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.
- NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration
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- NASA JPLJet Propulsion Laboratory / Solar System Dynamics
Orbital data, ephemerides, and small-body parameters for planets, asteroids, and comets.