Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstadt/Justin Cowart It turns out, Jupiter likes to have giant red spots, but it doesn’t always have the same giant red spot. New research led by Agustin Sanchez-Lavega and appearing in Geophysical Research letters looks through nearly more than 350 years of telescopic data on Jupiter and finds clear evidence of Jupiter not having a giant spot from roughly 1713 to 1831. Prior to 1713, numerous astronomers, including discoverer G.D. Cassini, documented what they called Jupiter’s “Permanent Spot”. Their careful sketches allowed modern...