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The Mystery of Jupiter's Shrinking Great Red Spot Might Be Solved


It's the iris in the great eyeball of Jupiter, revolving to gaze balefully out upon the cosmos: the Great Red Spot, the single largest, longest-lived storm in the entire Solar System.

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