Jupiter’s Great Red Spot may be less than 200 years old
Historical and recent data suggest the Spot is distinct from one viewed in the 1600s and 1700s
![Jupiter Red Spot](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/070924_cw_great-red-spot_feat.jpg?fit=1030%2C580&ssl=1)
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, seen in this color-enhanced image from NASA’s Juno spacecraft, is a morass of clouds wider than Earth that has been swirling for hundreds of years.
JPL-Caltech/NASA, SwRI, MSSS, Gerald Eichstädt, Seán Doran