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The Great Red Spot
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A Voyager 1 capture from 1979 - this image was heavily degraded so I have done quite a major repair job on it to try and make it half decent. The Great Red Spot is an anti-cyclonic (high- pressure) storm on Jupiter that can be likened to the worst hurricanes on Earth. An ancient storm, it is so large that three Earths could fit inside it.

Credit: NASA

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