Jupiter’s iconic Great Red Spot is a massive storm that has swirled within the atmosphere of the largest planet in the solar system for years. But astronomers have debated just how old the vortex ...

Jupiter's iconic Great Red Spot has persisted for at least 190 years and is likely a different spot from the one observed by the astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini in 1665, a new study reports. The ...

The planet Jupiter is particularly known for its so-called Great Red Spot, a swirling vortex in the gas giant’s atmosphere that has been around since at least 1831. But how it formed and how old it is ...

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot was first discovered in 1665 by astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini, and both scientists and the public have been awe-stricken by its beauty and the processes that created it ...

In the 1660s, Italian astronomer Gian Domenico Cassini discovered something while looking at the planet Jupiter: a massive spot now known as the planet’s signature. Known as the Great Red Spot or ...

The brick red, white and brown cloud bands of Jupiter are seen here from Saturn orbit. The Cassini spacecraft’s powerful imaging cameras were specially designed to photograph nearby bodies (cosmically ...

We present phase curves of Jupiter from 0-140 degrees as measured in multiple optical bandpasses by Cassini/ISS during the Millennium flyby of Jupiter in late 2000 to early 2001. Phase curves are of ...

In December 2000, when NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will pass by Jupiter, scientists from the Max Planck Institut f¸r Kernphysik in Heidelberg, Germany, will analyse microscopic ash particles from ...

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