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New View of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot
March 22, 2010 | NASA

“New thermal images from powerful ground-based telescopes show swirls of warmer air and cooler regions never seen before within Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, enabling scientists to make the first detailed interior weather map of the giant storm system.” Quoted from the NASA press release.


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