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The Great Red Spot is a huge (larger than Earth's diameter) anti-cyclonic storm with three white spots surrounding it. The Great Red Spot is theorized to have been created about 300 years ago. It is thought that humans have observed the ever-growing storm for over 160 years. The official name for it is Oval BA. The Red Spot is a storm worse than any storm on Earth, rotating counterclockwise at a period of 10 hours. The three smaller spots appeared in the year 2000. In 2005, the spot turned white, then brown, then back to red over the course of the year. The Great Red Spot is a fascinating subject that scientists hope to learn more about.
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 * [[image:http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/507738main_Jupiter_2-xltn.jpg width="226" height="170" align="bottom" caption="Jupiter's Great Red Spot"]] || [[image:http://callisto.ggsrv.com/imgsrv/FastFetch/UBER1/00002247 width="229" height="171" caption="Close-up of the storm."]] ||  ||
 * [[image:http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS4XNP05AvD_MWWyA2Y3k47nVazsPwpBKN5qIEII8dOZLMgpdn_jA width="210" height="145" caption="The red spot and the three white spots."]] || [[image:http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQR1Fu2ti_wZUj_SGf9IpBKLwAWf2GHJdo8XLz4988ilh7XuwiK width="193" height="125" caption="An impression of what Gallileo saw."]] ||  ||

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3. Three more smaller spots showed up, and merged into one, in the year 2000.
4. The Great Red Spot is theorized to have formed around 300 years ago. 5. The spot turned white, then brown, then red by the end of 2005. 6. Its official name is Oval BA. 7. Rotates counterclockwise. 8. The spot is an anti-cyclonic storm. 9. It is worse than any hurricane on Earth. 10. Rotates at a period of 10 hours.