No, Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is not disintegrating, physicist claims

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No, Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is not disintegrating, physicist claims

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From Ars Technica:
"Earlier this year, several amateur astronomers spotted an unusual anomaly on the planet Jupiter: bits of the gas giant's famed Great Red Spot appeared to be flaking off, raising fears that the planet's most identifiable feature might be showing signs of disappearing. But Philip Marcus, a physicist at the University of California, Berkeley, begs to differ. He argues that reports of the red spot's death have been greatly exaggerated, and at a meeting of the American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics in Seattle this week, he offered an intriguing counter-explanation for the flaking."

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/11 ... st-claims/

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Re: No, Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is not disintegrating, physicist claims

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Hi Stephen. Thanks for the link and interesting read about this Great Red Spot phenomenon.
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