Nature’s most awesome storm will be gone in 10 years

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WHEN it was first measured in the 1800s, Jupiter’s Great Red Spot was an enormous four times bigger than the Earth.

Then, when the space probe Voyager 2 hurtled past in 1979, it was seen to be a little more than twice the size of our planet.

Now under the prying eye of NASA’s Juno probe, it’s barely 30 per cent bigger than us.

“Nothing lasts forever,” Juno mission planetary scientist Glenn Orton told Business Insider.

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Oh No! This is terrible news!

Dammit, now I’m sad

WHAT? NO

Honestly I’m actually more impressed by the knowledge that oh yeah, this is just something that happens on jupiter sometimes, like oh yeah that planet-sized centuries long storm will pass eventually but you never know when there’ll be another one

you get used to that

we have a saying here on jupiter: if you don’t like the weather, wait 500 years

Nature’s most awesome storm will be gone in 10 years