Origin of Jupiter's Great Red Spot

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Jun 1961

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Nature, Volume 190, Issue 4779, pp. 895-896 (1961).

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THE Great Red Spot in the southern hemisphere of Jupiter's otherwise ever-changing surface of dense cloud has baffled astronomers for many years1,2. The purpose of this communication is to outline the results of elementary dynamical and hydrodynamical considerations which suggest a straightforward explanation of the phenomenon. Contrary to generally accepted views3, the non-uniform rotation of the Great Red Spot does not rule out the possibility that its origin is in the `solid planet' ; I believe that quite a shallow `topographical feature' of the surface of the `solid planet' could account for the observations. The theory should be amenable to further observational tests, and an experiment is now in hand to check the chief theoretical argument on which it is based.

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