science: Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is the largest storm in the solar system. The hurricane has been going on for as long as humans have pointed telescopes at it, hundreds of years at the very least, and it’s twice as wide as the diameter of the Earth. Lately, it’s been shrinking, but not slowing down. This picture (here digitally processed) was originally taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft in 1979. Voyager is the man-made object that’s traveled farthest from Earth. At the moment, the distance between Voyager 1 and our planet is more than 100 times more than the average distance between Earth and the Sun. At some point in the not too distant future, it will leave the solar system entirely. Click for high-res photo

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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is the largest storm in the solar system. The hurricane has been going on for as long as humans have pointed telescopes at it, hundreds of years at the very least, and it’s twice as wide as the diameter of the Earth. Lately, it’s been shrinking, but not slowing down. This picture (here digitally processed) was originally taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft in 1979. Voyager is the man-made object that’s traveled farthest from Earth. At the moment, the distance between Voyager 1 and our planet is more than 100 times more than the average distance between Earth and the Sun. At some point in the not too distant future, it will leave the solar system entirely.

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