Since the sixteen hundreds
[image error]A giant storm has raged,
Largest in the solar system,
One Jupiter has made.
A swirling gale that could
Swallow our Earth whole.
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot
Is known to one and all.
A vortex lasting centuries
Can’t go on forever.
Two hundred years have seen it shrink
By half, in Jove’s great weather.
And still receding slowly,
So in a decade or two,
It could become the Great Red Ring
That memory carries through.
by Kate Rauner
“The GRS [Great Red Spot] will in a decade or two become the GRC (Great Red Circle). Maybe sometime after that the GRM, by which he means the Great Red Memory.” space.com
Published on February 24, 2018 13:23