Labels:text | screenshot | menu OCR: THE GREAT RED SPOT The Spot THE GREAT RED SPOT is a huge anticyclonic region - a storm - in Jupiter's upper clouds. Since the spot was first observed, its diameter has been seen to reach three times that of the Earth. Its red and pink coloring may be caused by phosphorus sucked into the Spot's eddying gas currents from the lower atmosphere. The Spot is higher and colder than its surroundings and completes one counterclockwise WHIRLPOOL The Great Red Spot is an area of high rotation in about 12 Earth days. pressure where upward-spiraling winds carry gases into the atmosphere.
