Published in Geophysical Research Letters · View the paper (DOI)
Jupiter's Great Red Spot is a massive anticyclonic vortex with winds traveling at 450 km/h. The study reveals that the current GRS likely originated from a proto-GRS formed due to wind instability, which then underwent shrinkage over time.
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