TL;DR 5 Sentence Summary - Why Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Refuses to Die
People have long wondered, why has the Great Red Spot been around for such a long time?
The Great Red Spot is a storm, and we are used to storms on Earth.
Below the Great Red Spot, there must be a warm buoyant floor of atmosphere, and that floor prevents the high pressure center from pushing the gases in the Great Red Spot downward and out its bottom.
In a computer simulation, you can actually measure the direction and magnitude of all the energies that go in and out of the Great Red Spot, and the whole energy budget balances very nicely.
If I do a simulation of a big Red Spot on Jupiter sitting between zonal winds and I smack it, try and break it in two, it'll come back together.
C'mon guys.. I think you're missing the simple answer here:
That picture of Jupiter Is CGI.
Good eye lol. It's either that or a crappy picture =P
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