Great Red Spot (IMAGE)

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Great Red Spot

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A (false color) series of images capturing the repeated?flaking of red clouds from the GRS in the Spring of 2019. In the earliest image, the flaking is predominant?on the east side of the giant red vortex. The flake then breaks off from the GRS, but a new flake starts to detach in the fifth image.

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Chris Go

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