What is the giant red spot on Jupiter?
Created | Updated Aug 24, 2006
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What is the giant red spot on Jupiter?
One of the most well known features on Jupiter is a large red spot known at the Great Red Spot.
For more than three hundred years a hurricane has raged in Jupiter’s atmosphere. This
hurricane towers 5 miles (8 kilometers) above neighboring clouds and is thought to be made mainly
of ice clouds and ammonia gas. The Great Red Spot rotates every six Earth days in an
anti-clockwise direction and is three times the size of the Earth. The Great Red Spot is thought
to last for another three hundred years before it will finally disappear.
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