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Gaaark [soylentnews.org] writes:

NASA spacecraft barreling toward Jupiter for July 4 meetup
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/nasa-jupiter-spacecraft-juno-1.3639422 [www.cbc.ca]

The Juno spacecraft is bound for a Fourth of July encounter with Jupiter in the latest quest to study how the largest planet in the solar system formed and evolved: it will also study its many moons, and famous Great Red Spot.

The 'Great Red Spot', as you may know, is a storm that has 'raged' for about 350 years (that we know of): recently, though, it has begun to shrink.
http://phys.org/news/2015-10-great-red-orange-pimpleis-jupiter.html [phys.org]
and
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/goddard/hubble-s-planetary-portrait-captures-new-changes-in-jupiter-s-great-red-spot [nasa.gov]

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