Jupiter's Red Spot photographed by NASA's Juno spacecraft
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eikstad/Sean Dolan ? CC NC SA
Jupiter's Great Red Spot may be younger than many astronomers thought: The giant storm was first spotted by Giovanni Cassini in 1665, but it turns out the spot Cassini saw was probably different to the vortex we see today.
The Great Red Spot, a storm bigger than Earth, has been continuously observed since 1831. But between 1665 and 1713, huge storms were also observed in the same place on Jupiter, leading astronomers to wonder…
Source: www.newscientist.com
