https://nypost.com/2021/10/29/jupiters-monster-storm-not-just-wide-but-surprisingly-deep/

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, a storm so big it could swallow Earth, extends surprisingly deep beneath the planet’s cloud tops, scientists reported Thursday.

 NASA’s Juno spacecraft has discovered that the monster storm, though shrinking, still has a depth of between 200 miles and 300 miles or so. When combined with its width of 10,000 miles, the Great Red Spot resembles a fat pancake in new 3D images of the planet.

 The mission’s lead scientist, Scott Bolton of Southwest Research Institute, said there might not be a hard cutoff at the bottom of the storm.

 “It probably fades out gradually and keeps going down,” Bolton said at a news conference.

“I wouldn’t want to be too quick to guess that we’ve seen the deepest,” Bolton told reporters. “But the Great Red Spot is the largest and that makes it special by itself, and you might expect that it might be deeper just because of that.”

 By contrast, some of the surrounding jet streams extend an estimated 2,000 miles into Jupiter.

Launched in 2011, Juno has been orbiting the solar system’s largest planet since 2016. NASA recently extended the mission by another four years, to 2025.