--- title: That Giant Storm on Jupiter Is Shrinking description: The Great Red Spot, a storm the size of Earth on the face of Jupiter, is now at its smallest size ever recorded, NASA said. canonical: https://time.com/101810/jupiters-trademark-great-red-spot-is-shrinking/ author: Noah Rayman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-15T20:01:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T07:52:23.051Z article:section: Science og:title: That Giant Storm on Jupiter Is Shrinking og:description: The Great Red Spot, a storm the size of Earth on the face of Jupiter, is now at its smallest size ever recorded, NASA said. og:url: https://time.com/101810/jupiters-trademark-great-red-spot-is-shrinking/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd45b02278efa796a/69868fb7e8524b7eb2602ebe/2014-05-15t160701z_448212176_gm1ea5f1u.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3500 og:image:height: 1969 og:image:alt: A NASA handout of the planet Jupiter/s trademark Great Red Spot og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: That Giant Storm on Jupiter Is Shrinking twitter:description: The Great Red Spot, a storm the size of Earth on the face of Jupiter, is now at its smallest size ever recorded, NASA said. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd45b02278efa796a/69868fb7e8524b7eb2602ebe/2014-05-15t160701z_448212176_gm1ea5f1u.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jupiter's Trademark 'Great Red Spot' Is Shrinking > Sponsored content. 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NASA/Reuters  by [Noah Rayman](https://time.com/author/noah-rayman/)  ## Noah Rayman May 15, 2014 8:01 PM UTC A storm the size of Earth on the face of Jupiter, known as the Great Red Spot, has been shrinking rapidly over the past two years and is now at [its smallest size ever recorded](http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/may/nasas-hubble-shows-jupiters-great-red-spot-is-smaller-than-ever-measured/#.U3UOCFhdUp-), NASA said Thursday. The spot was measured at 25,500 miles across its axis back in the late 1800s. It steadily shrank until 2012, when astronomers found that it began shrinking by as much as 580 miles a year. Now, according to a recent observation by the NASA Hubble Space Telescope, the storm is “only” about 10,250 miles across (that’s still wider than Earth’s diameter). 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