Astounding close-up image of Jupiter's Giant Red Spot

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Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/07/12/astounding-close-up-image-of-j.html

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Jovian once again checks weather report, sighs with resignation, looks wistfully at beach gear gathering dust in garage.

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Born in 1970, as I was, this was state-of-the-art stuff in my 1975 World Book Encyclopedia:

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Astounding close-up image of Jupiter’s Giant Red Spot

Looks cancerous, might be bad.

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“Astounding close-up image of Jupiter’s Giant Red Spot”

A dab of acne cream should handle that.

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Looks like one of those multi-level roundabouts.

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Jovian malignancies are the worst.

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And just how many Earths can fit inside of that?? Damn, that is one big storm.

Looked it up: 3

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That’s kind of terrifying but definitely awe inducing.

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I hope they don’t need a rocket surgeon. Those guys are insufferable.

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Gee, I don’t know. I know of one who excised a mole from of the face of Titan… and that RS was pretty cool.

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Fun fact, they call those types of overflow holes as Glory Holes.

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I was looking for an image to express my surprise at the -depth- of the great red spot.

MAI HOLE!

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Well, I’ve lived long enough to see a close-up picture of the Great Red Spot, and it’s still an impressive mystery.

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You might be looking at radius rather than diameter. Earth is just under 8,000 miles wide.

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“An ancient storm, it is so large that three Earths could fit inside it.”

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The “Face of Jupiter” :grinning:

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ಠ▃ಠ  

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I don’t know–maybe they mean volume? The spot is shrinking and as of last year, it looked like only one Earth could fit:

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