{"id":91608,"date":"2019-06-04T02:42:46","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T09:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/jupiters-great-red-spot-is-lashing-out-as-it-dies"},"modified":"2019-06-04T02:42:46","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T09:42:46","slug":"jupiters-great-red-spot-is-lashing-out-as-it-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/jupiters-great-red-spot-is-lashing-out-as-it-dies","title":{"rendered":"Jupiter\u2019s Great Red Spot is lashing out as it dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/jupiters-great-red-spot-is-lashing-out-as-it-dies.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jupiter\u2019s Great Red Spot is one of the most iconic features of any planet in our Solar System. The colossal, swirling storm has dominated Jupiter for years, and it\u2019s one of the things we always expect to see when new images of Jupiter are published. Unfortunately, the spot is dying a slow and agonizing death, and it\u2019s possible that it could be <a href=\"https:\/\/bgr.com\/2018\/02\/19\/jupiters-great-red-spot-may-be-dying-and-could-disappear-within-our-lifetimes\/\">entirely gone within our lifetimes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The storm is running out of steam, and while astronomers are always striving to learn more about the mechanics of how Jupiter\u2019s massive storms form and sustain themselves, it\u2019s clear that the Great Red Spot\u2019s days are numbered. Now, observations by veteran Jupiter observer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acquerra.com.au\/astro\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Wesley<\/a> seem to reveal the storm lashing out as it rotates in Jupiter\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bgr.com\/2019\/05\/28\/jupiter-great-red-spot-dying-blades\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jupiter\u2019s Great Red Spot is one of the most iconic features of any planet in our Solar System. The colossal, swirling storm has dominated Jupiter for years, and it\u2019s one of the things we always expect to see when new images of Jupiter are published. Unfortunately, the spot is dying a slow and agonizing death, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}