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Title: dark cloud twice the size of Earth
Post by: Whitters on Mar 13, 2003, 05:57:00
NASA Science News for March 12, 2003

For more than a century, astronomers thought the Great Red Spot was the
biggest thing on Jupiter. But cameras onboard the Cassini spacecraft have
revealed something at least as large: a dark cloud twice the size of Earth
swirling around Jupiter's north pole.

FULL STORY at

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/12mar_darkspot.htm?list907772