- Jupiter's Great Red Spot, a gigantic storm about twice as wide as Earth, may not be shrinking as fast as previously suggested.
- The research found that the Great Red Spot's thickness probably remained constant despite dramatic shrinkage in its area observed over a span of approximately four decades.
- The Great Red Spot on Jupiter is one such patch, an anticyclone that has been observed for decades. To its north, the cyclone is contained by an eastward-moving atmospheric band, and to its south, a westward-moving band.