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July 2017 / posted 2018 · Wayback

NASA probe Juno looks deeper into Jupiter’s Great Red Spot

Old Observatory clipping, Wayback 2018 · NASA/JPL

Original wording. Not rewritten as Paper I. Withdrawn claims stay visible so the record is not erased.

Juno passed about 5,600 miles (9,000 km) above the clouds of the Spot on 10 July 2017. Scott Bolton: “For hundreds of years scientists have been observing, wondering and theorizing about Jupiter’s Great Red Spot. Now we have the best pictures ever of this iconic storm.”

Width as of 3 April 2017: 10,159 miles (16,350 km) — 1.3 times as wide as Earth. Monitored since 1830. In modern times it has appeared to be shrinking.

The live Spot page uses later Juno gravity and microwave work: a fitted floor still around 100 bar.