Spot Shrinking facts
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Jupiter's Giant Red Spot has been shrinking: from 41,000km upon its discovery in the late 1800s to about 16,000km in 2015.
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is shrinking and lost 30% of it's size since the 1970s
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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is shrinking. The solar system’s most well known storm once could fit three Earths inside of it. Now it could only fit one.
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The Great Red Spot on Jupiter is shrinking
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Jupiter's Great Red Spot is rapidly shrinking in surface area but getting slightly taller. It spans only a third of the surface area that it did 150 years ago.
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Jupiter's iconic "Great Red Spot" is shrinking. It has shrunken by 2,000 miles since 1995, and is half the size of the original estimates in the 1800s.
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Jupiter's giant red spot, a giant storm larger than earth,is shrinking and could potentially disappear by 2030
