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 ...

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 ...

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 ...