See Spots spin

See Spots spin

In recent years, Jupiter has picked up a couple new red spots. While the Great Red Spot (right) has raged for hundreds of years, newer smaller red spots -- Red Spot, Jr., (middle) and "Baby Spot" (left) have emerged.

Courtesy M. Wong and I. de Pater (University of California, Berkeley).
This image is in the Public Domain.

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