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NASA's Hubble Shows Jupiter's Great Red Spot is Smaller than Ever
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NASA's Hubble Shows Jupiter's Great Red Spot is Smaller than Ever

NASA / GSFC · 2017-12-08 · photograph (digital archive)

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In this comparison image the photo at the top was taken by Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 in 1995 and shows the spot at a diameter of just under 21 000km; the second down shows a 2009 WFC3 photo of the spot at a diameter of just under 18 000km; and the lowest shows the newest image from WFC3 taken in 2014 with the spot at its smallest yet, with diameter of just 16 000km.

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Credit lineNASA's Hubble Shows Jupiter's Great Red Spot is Smaller than Ever. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001093.
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