jupiters great big red spot

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Jupiter has a big spot located 22° south of Jupiter's equator . Its dimensions are 24–40,000 km west–to–east and 12–14,000 km south–to–north. The spot is large enough to contain two or three planets the size of Earth. we barely know much about Jupiter yet alone its big red spot but astronomers have recently discovered new facts about it !  the great red spot is actually a huge anticyclonic storm thats lasted more than 347 years . although in 2009 they discovered at the start of 2004 it was half the size it was a century ago at the rate its going it will be circular by 2040 . it shrinks 1 kilometer a day thats kinda slow for its size but the fact its shrinking is amazing .   between 1996 and 2006 the spot lost 15 percent of its diameter along its major axis. with infrared cameras or telescopes have found out that the red spot is colder than most other clouds on the planet . The cloudtops of the great red spot is about 8 km higher then clouds around it. we got pictures of the GRS from the Galileo mission. this space craft used Earth's and Venus' gravity to sling shot to Jupiter. As it was doing its mission something went corrupt and it crashed into the redspot.    
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in 1966 scientist discovered its counterclockwise circulation. It is not knwn what makes the great red spot , red but theories supported by lab experiments suggest that the color may be red from organic molecules , red phosphorus , or another type of sulfur compound. the GRS can change color from darker to lighter. the spot was darkest the most in in 1961-66 , 1968-75 , 1989-90 , and 1992-93. 

my thoughts on the world beyond

                                      THE CELESTIAL SPHERE

the Celestial sphere is the discussion of objects in the sky that allow you to imagine them attached to a sphere surrounding the earth. this sphere has a bunch of points in it. just as we rotate in a direction the sphere rotates east to west.

   

The path of the Sun across the celestial sphere is very close to that of the planets and the moon. After clocks became available, it was a relatively straightforward job for astronomers to relate the path of the Sun in the daytime to the one of stars at night, and to draw it on their star charts. Because of its relation to eclipses, that path is known as the ecliptic