Monday, April 26, 2010

The Great Red Spot


Jupiter's Great Red Spot is a huge, long lasting strom cloud inside the planets atmosphere. It is an Anti-Cyclonic(high pressure) Hurricane strom that is 17,000 miles long and 9,000 miles wide.

This is the biggest storm in the Solar System, the storm is so big that three Earths could fit in it with room to spare.


Jupiter's Great Red Spot was discovered in 1664 by Robert Hooke. The white spots on Jupiter also are storm clouds, The Reason why the storms and the planet is red, and orange is because of the chemicals and gas in the atmosphere.




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