Talk:Great Dark Spot

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> I don't get it, couldn't the Great Dark Spot move to the new position? Especially when the winds are so strong. It moves already doesn't it?

> I don't get it either. According to other resources. I've seems that the spot hasn't disappeared.

Just wondered what its diameter was... does anyone know?

Like on Earth, cyclones on Neptune likely can't cross hemispheres without dissipation. Large storms on Neptune likely change more often than on Jupiter. hope this helps. AstroHurricane001^{(Talk+Contribs+Ubx)} 00:49, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Question?

In a book, I've read; It showed that there was the Great Dark Spot, Scooter and Dark Spot 2. The book shows that they have vanished since the photo was takeen in 1989.

Q: Couldn't the Great Dark Spot have dissapated or traveled to the other side of Neptune while the scientists re-looked at Neptune?? User:Pvt. Green February 20, 2007 19:43 EST

Neptune rotates approximately once every 16 hours. It's not too hard to observe the planet for 16 hours and see whether the Spot is there or not. Danielklein (talk) 01:30, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

But they said it might be a hole in the ozone layer. Maybe it closed up and opened up somewhere else. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.175.1.99 (talk) 19:26, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Typo? Earth = Neptune?

In the first paragraph; it was not thought to be a storm instead an methane hole similar to the hole in your aEarth's ozone layer. nos

A hole in Earth's Atmostphere? That doesn't make sense, Voyager would not have been affected by Earth's atmostphere. Could this perhaps be refering to Neptune's ozone layer?

> I see, that's referring to a hole like a hole in the Earth's ozone layer by pollution. The sentence describes the hole just exactly like earths'. Pvt. Green 00:40, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

This is an example.

Ambiguity?

According to this NASA source, the Great Dark Spot is also the name for a feature on Jupiter that was observed by the Cassini spacecraft. — RJH (talk) 22:42, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Please!!

Please!! can you tell me about Northern Great Dark Spot (NGDS)????? is it bigger or smaller than the great dark spot????? thanks =)--Yapxo 18:07, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Hi. This page is for discussion on improving the article, not the general matter. If you want, visit this page to ask your question. Hope this helps. Thanks. ~AH1^(TCU) 18:16, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

The size of the spot

The first paragraph under Characteristics says: "The spot was relatively the same size as Earth itself"; In a different article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraterrestrial_cyclone you can read that "It was approximately the same size as Eurasia." The article about Neptune http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptune states that Neptune's equatorial radius is 3.883 Earths. In the image http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Neptune.jpg you can see that the spot is much smaller than 1/4th of the planet's diameter. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.203.46.22 (talk) 13:16, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Suggestion

Hello. I think this article (and subject) will benefit if we put the focus on what "dark spots" are generally speaking. GDS-89 could then be discussed in a subsection. The same for the Small Dark Spot. With time we could even generate a broad article including all kinds of atmospheric spots on the Outer Planets, such as the spots on Jupiter and Saturn for example.

When I find the time and inspiration I will engage in and initiate such a project. Let me know what you think? RhinoMind (talk) 21:41, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

Redirected from "Great Blue Spot", but that's Jupiter

"Great Blue Spot" redirects here, but the GBS is a term used in Astronomy as a characteristic of Jupiter, not Neptune (see eg https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0468-5). Can the redirect be removed, please? Red banksy (talk) 10:40, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

hi 38.141.37.227 (talk) 18:40, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

Which hemisphere?

The article mentions a Northern Spot implying that the Spot is normally in the southern hemisphere. Can its usual position be sourced and added please? Danielklein (talk) 01:22, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

Inconsistently referring to the new great dark spot

In the 2nd sentence of the 2nd paragraph of the disappearance section Talks about a new great dark spot which is written with the same name in bold as the original spot, but there is an abbreviation for it that starts with an N when the previously provided name does not have an N in it. I looked in the sources for that part a while ago and they don't seem to call it the "New Great Dark Spot" so maybe that sentence should just be removed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alphium (talk • contribs) 00:22, 26 February 2022 (UTC)

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