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The Shrinking Giant Red Spot of Jupiter

Posted by samzenpus on from the getting-small dept.

schwit1 (797399) writes "Jupiter's trademark Great Red Spot — a swirling storm feature larger than Earth — is shrinking. This downsizing, which is changing the shape of the spot from an oval into a circle, has been known about since the 1930s, but now these striking new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope images capture the spot at a smaller size than ever before."

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  1. Re:Global warming by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Somebody do something!

    Uh, spending quite possibly millions since the 1930's to track and study the most popular pimple on one of our planets, I'd say we're doing enough, unless you feel for some reason that wasteful spending isn't quite up to par with the level of corruption elsewhere.

    Would you prefer NASA take a page out of the financial sector? I'm sure they know what they're doing.

  2. #bringbackourspot by T.E.D. · · Score: 0, Troll

    Next we'll see pictures of a whole bunch of different celebrities holding up white cards with #bringbackourspot written on them.

    My first guess would be Madonna, since her cheek seems to have lost a spot sometime around 1992. Also, Lady Gaga seems to keep losing hers and finding it again on another part of her face. So they can empathize.