The Great Red Spot, a storm on Jupiter which has been observed raging for more than 150 years, is spinning faster and faster, baffling scientists.”When I initially saw the results, I asked ‘Does this make sense?’. No one has ever seen this before,” said Michael Wong of the University of California, Berkeley, who led the analysis.
The winds, which spin counterclockwise around the vortex – which is bigger than the Earth – at speeds greater than 400mph, have increased by up to 8% from 2009 to 2020.
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Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system. Pic: NASA
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