Giant Storm The great red spot of Jupiter will disappear in 20 years, say planetologists

Jupiter does not have large bright rings, such as the nearby Saturn; instead its most iconic feature is the Great Red Spot (GRS), a huge, twisted storm raging on the planet since the 1600s. But this most recognizable landmark will not last forever.

The planet Jupiter is an absolutely beautiful cosmic body. With swirling thunderclouds growing all over the surface of the planet, this ever-turbulent gas giant looks awful and wonderful from a safe distance. A peculiarity of this incredible gas giant with bizarre clouds is the colossal storm known to the whole world as the Great Red Spot

A large red spot has significantly decreased over the past 150 years, during which time scientists have studied it. At first, its size exceeded the Earth four times, but today the storm is hardly more than our planet. Astronomers often tried to determine how long it could last before it completely disappeared.

It seems that in the near future the storm will die, and it will happen sooner than the researchers assumed. According to Glenn Orton, the scientist and the head of the NASA team on the current mission of Juno, who said: "The Great Red Spot will become a Great Red Circle in 10-20 years, and then Big Red Memory."

Storms on Jupiter are much more volatile than on Earth. First, Jupiter is a much larger planet that rotates incredibly fast. The day on Jupiter lasts only a few earthly hours.

The planet also has a particularly dense, dense atmosphere that extends far down to the planet. The Great Red Spot is so large and long-lived, because it is trapped between two currents in the atmosphere, moving in different directions, constantly whipping it. When the storm dies, Jupiter will lose its feature and become just a huge planet in the solar system.