This churning red hurricane is twice the size of Earth ⬇️
The Great Red Spot’s longevity is partially be explained by the fact that Jupiter doesn't have a solid surface. Jupiter's"sky" is 70 km deep, and consists of cloud layers made of ammonia ice, ammonium hydrosulfide or water ice and vapor. Scientists believe that beneath these layers exists an ocean of liquid hydrogen. And beneath that ocean is the planet's core — but scientists are not sure yet.
On Earth, hurricanes start to slow and break apart when they reach solid land, but with nowhere for the Great Red Spot to make landfall, the storm can rage on and on. "We think what happens is [storms] hit a stable size, and that's when it should stop and just kind of stay that size, unless something breaks it apart," Amy Simon, a senior scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, toldAnd the Great Red Spot might actually be breaking apart.
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