This article was originally published on DiscoverMagazine.com Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is an anomaly with no known equal in our solar system. The powerful anticyclone churns beneath the planet’s equator, where it produces winds estimated at between 270 and 425 mph. While it has shrunk in recent decades (to just a bit wider than Earth),Continue reading “In With a Bang, Out With Ammonia: Saturn’s Strange, 100-Year Storms”
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