A Jovian boxing match

This coming Tuesday, July 4^th, the two biggest storms swirling around Jupiter are gonna pass each other by, and no one really knows what the outcome will be.

The most interesting aspect to me is the sheer size of these huge storms:

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.

Its contender will be Oval BA, also known as "Red Jr.," a young six-year storm that is only half Great Red's size but whose winds are just as fierce.

Isn't that mind boggling? A storm twice as large as Earth? Wow. And its winds are more than twice as fierce as those of the strongest hurricanes we get here on Earth.

Just amazing.