As Greg Pollowitz noted a few months ago, Jupiter’s great red spot is getting smaller — its diameter shrinking by an average of 365 km a year between 1996 and 2006, according to research from the journal Icarus. Cosmos magazine has a nice photo series of the gas giant’s massive atmospheric storm [h/t to Tom Nelson for the Cosmos link and image].

As previously noted here, that anthropogenic global warming certainly is powerful stuff.