stackyFACTSImagine flexing your massive atmospheric storm for centuries only to slowly deflate like a sad cosmic balloon.
Imagine flexing your massive atmospheric storm for centuries only to slowly deflate like a sad cosmic balloon. The Great Red Spot is a high-pressure anticyclonic storm that has been raging for hundreds of orbits, but observations show its width is drastically decreasing. Once large enough to swallow multiple Earth-sized bodies, it is now shedding layers of gas at its edges. It is essentially the solar system's most dramatic midlife crisis.
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