Jovian storms prepare for showdown

2006

Astronomers on Earth will have ringside seats to a face-off between two of the biggest storms in the solar system.

Astronomers on Earth will have ringside seats to a face-off between two of the biggest storms in the solar system.

In one corner will be Jupiter's Great Red Spot, a behemoth of a tempest that is twice as large as Earth and whose 350 miles per hour winds have been whirling for hundreds of years.