Most oceanographers are very familiar with the phenomenon, as sometimes the Loop Current in the Gulf of Mexico sheds large ones, and the most heavily studied ones form north of the Gulf Stream, and the Kuroshio. Amazing images from Earth-based telescopes in Chile and Hawai'i are showing Jupiter in a "new light". This image is thermal infra-red light, and clearly shows the GRS as a a large warm-cored eddy, which could be in the Atlantic Ocean, except it is much larger than the entire Earth. - HLG
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