Studies say that the red spot on Jupiter will not die soon

Since long, the characteristic feature on Jupiter has been the giant red spot which has been a cyclonic effect of the warm and cold winds on the planet. Earlier NASA's Juno mission had shown this spot diminishing in size which led to a consensus that it might be dying. According to the American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics 72nd Annual Meeting which was held in Seattle earlier this week, scientists have revealed that this might just be due to the climatic changes on the planet and that the giant spot will not die down anytime soon. Currently, the mass of the spot equals two times the size of the earth.

"The loss of undigested clouds from the [Great Red Spot] through encounters with stagnation points does not signify the demise of the GRS. The proximity of the stagnation points to the GRS during May and June does not signify its demise. The creation of little vortices to the east, northeast of the GRS during the spring of 2019 and their subsequent merging with the GRS does not signify its demise,” saidPhilip Marcus, a computational physicist at the University of California.

The giant red sport was in fact an anti-cyclonic body that was reported by Robert Hooke in 1964. This storm moves against the planet’s orbit creating a disturbance.