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In modern times much interest has been
taken in watching a rival to Cassini’s fa-
mous spot. The ”great red spot” was first
observed by Niesten, Pritchett, and Tem-
pel, in 1878, as a rosy cloud attached to
a whitish zone beneath the dark southern
equatorial band, shaped like the new war
balloons, 30,000 miles long and 7,000 miles
across. The next year it was brick-red. A
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