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Old 07-10-2021, 06:43 PM
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Red Spot on Jupiter

Correct me if I'm wrong... that Red Spot is actually a ' storm ' on Jupiter ... and ...it's that ' big ' , you can fit ' many earths ' inside of it.

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Old 07-10-2021, 06:53 PM
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Correct me if I'm wrong... that Red Spot is actually a ' storm ' on Jupiter ... and ...it's that ' big ' , you can fit ' many earths ' inside of it.

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Correct. You can measure it in WinJUPOS.

Another uber cool video is here: https://www.astrobin.com/s22cnu/0/
Solar surface prominences. According to Peter's estimate layer thickness ~50000km and winds of up to 200000kph to put it in perspective.

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Old 07-10-2021, 08:31 PM
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Correct me if I'm wrong... that Red Spot is actually a ' storm ' on Jupiter ... and ...it's that ' big ' , you can fit ' many earths ' inside of it.

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Nothing to correct tbh. Research some more info about it
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