Hubble Telescope captures Jupiter's Great Red Spot

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By My Space

Published on 11 Mar 2023

NASA's Hubble Telescope finds Red spot which is actually a big storm, just like spinning cyclone.

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This is Great Red Spot of Jupiter, a spinning cyclone which is 2 times the size of our planet Earth.

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It is known as largest storm in our solar system. By comparing with our Earth it's 2 times bigger.

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Firstly Great Red Spot was noticed in 17th century by switch their telescope to Jupiter.

Credit: NASA, ESA, Amy Simon (NASA-GSFC), Michael H. Wong (UC Berkeley)

Surprisingly, Great Red Spot is still present more than 300 years later.

Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), and M. H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley) the OPAL team.

This Red Spot rotates in counterclockwise direction in the southern hemisphere.

Credit: NASA, ESA, Michael H. Wong (UC Berkeley)

Winds speed of red storm is about 270 mph according to Hubble.

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Diameter of Earth is 7,917.5 miles and diameter of Great Red Spot is 15,400 miles, which is almost double size of Earth.

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