Curiously, earlier astronomers, like Giovanni Domenico Cassini in 1665 ... sleuthed through historical drawings and early telescope observations of Jupiter to conclude that today's spot is ...

Indeed, astronomers lost track of Cassini’s spot after 1713, and it wasn’t until 1831 that observations of a storm on Jupiter resurfaced. According to the new research, led by Agustín ...

In 2000, the Cassini probe confirmed the presence of this phenomenon at Jupiter's north pole ... These vortices draw dense, misty gases from deep within the atmospheric layers, absorbing ...

Illustrations by the 17th-century astronomer Cassini (a-c), compared with Jupiter's current Great Red Spot as captured by Eric Sussenbach in 2023. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...