<![CDATA[io9: Great Red Spot]]> http://cache.io9.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png <![CDATA[io9: Great Red Spot]]> http://io9.com/tag/great red spot http://io9.com/tag/great red spot <![CDATA[Failed star is home to gigantic super-storm]]> A brown dwarf located 47 light-years away is behaving very strangely. The would-be star's brightness is constantly changing, fluctuating by as much as 30% in just eight hours. This could be an atmospheric disturbance that dwarfs Jupiter's Great Red Spot. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5839439&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The Great Red Spot, Jupiter's eternal storm, is revealed in all its splendor]]> This photo mosaic combines photos from Voyager 1's 1979 Jupiter flyby to provide our best view ever of the Great Red Spot, the gigantic storm that has raged on that planet for centuries and is twice as big as Earth. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5649586&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Jupiter Has Come Down With a Case of Chicken Pox]]> Jupiter seems to be sprouting lots of Red Spots these days. Of course the original gangsta, the multiple Earth-sized Great Red Spot has been around for just about four centuries. But back in 2006 Red Spot Jr. appeared and as this picture shows, researchers have just observed a third spot west of big daddy. What's causing the outbreak? Engineer Phil Marcus of the University of California, Berkeley thinks climate change is to blame. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=392750&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Saturn Thunderstorm Would Fry Earth in a Hurry]]> When other planets do storms, they do 'em right. The Cassini spacecraft snapped photos of this monster thunderstorm on Saturn that's been raging for five months now, each lightning bolt packing 10,000 times more juice than it's Earthly counterparts. Jupiter's still got the illest storm in the solar system with it's almost four-century old Great Red Spot, but Saturn's storm's not too shabby — it's that blotch down in the lower right-hand part of the planet. That bright spot just below the rings? That's Saturn's moon Tethys looking way bigger than it should because it's in the foreground, just to give you a rough sense of scale. (from NASA) More »
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