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  1. A prominent oval feature, 14,000 km/8,500 mi
  2. wide and some 30,000 km/20,000 mi long, in
  3. the atmosphere of the planet Jupiter, south
  4. of the equator. Observed for over a century,
  5. recent space probes showed it to be an
  6. anticlockwise vortex of cold clouds, coloured
  7. possibly by phosphorus.
  8.