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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot — the biggest windstorm in the solar system — is shrinking, and a new study may help explain why. Located in Jupiter’s southern hemisphere, the Great Red Spot is a swirling, ...

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot — a vast storm that’s lasted for hundreds of years — is shaped like a pancake floating amid the clouds of the gas giant’s outer atmosphere and doesn’t reach deep into its ...