Red Spot
- a large, usually reddish gaseous vortex on the surface of Jupiter, about 14,000 by 30,000 km, that drifts about slowly as the planet rotates and has been observed for several hundred years.
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Origin of Red Spot
First recorded in 1875–80
Also called Great Red Spot.
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It was a fine cave, there was no doubt about that, and Red-Spot was a notable housekeeper.
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And Red-Spot was superior in many ways to the ordinary woman of the cave time.
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His life with Red-Spot was the sequence of what might be termed a fortunate marriage.
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I waited until dusk began finally to settle down and crept gently toward a Red-spot.
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It was soon after this great event of the first fish-catching that Red-Spot, Ab's mother, died.
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Red Spot
- See Great Red Spot
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