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The Great Dark Spot in exaggerated color as seen from Voyager 2. The Great Dark Spot (also known as GDS-89, for Great Dark Spot, 1989) was one of a series of dark spots on Neptune similar in appearance to Jupiter's Great Red Spot. In 1989, GDS-89 was the first Great Dark Spot on Neptune to be observed by NASA's Voyager 2 space probe.
A high-resolution view of the Small Dark Spot. The Small Dark Spot, sometimes also called Dark Spot 2 or The Wizard's Eye, was an extraterrestrial vortex on the planet Neptune. [1] [2] It was the second largest southern cyclonic storm on the planet in 1989, when Voyager 2 flew by the planet. When the Hubble Space Telescope observed Neptune in ...
The Small Dark Spot (sometimes called Great Dark Spot 2 or Wizard's Eye) was another vortex observed by Voyager 2 in its 1989 pass of Neptune. This spot is located approximately 30° further south on the planet and transits the planet once every 16.1 hours. [36] The Small Dark Spot's distinct appearance comes from white methane-ice clouds which ...
Astronomers have observed a mysterious large dark spot in Neptune’s atmosphere, along with a bright feature that has never been spotted before. Mysterious dark spot detected on Neptune Skip to ...
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Four years ago, astronomers noticed the abundant clouds on Neptune had largely disappeared. Telescope data may have helped researchers figure out why. Neptune’s clouds have disappeared, and ...
The Great Red Spot on Jupiter is specifically described as not being an eye. Nearly obscured by static, the text changes to state that the spot is an open wound. Saturn's rings are described as being 'the Gateway', while Neptune's Great Dark Spot is listed as 'the Lens' and that Neptune itself has been 'mutated'. Before the end of Neptune's ...
The relative "hot spot" is due to Neptune's axial tilt, which has exposed the south pole to the Sun for the last quarter of Neptune's year, or roughly 40 Earth years. As Neptune slowly moves towards the opposite side of the Sun, the south pole will be darkened and the north pole illuminated, causing the methane release to shift to the north pole.