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. A  stroHur  ricane  00  1 (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)

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. &mdash; 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. ~ A H  1 (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)