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Jupiter's Great Red Spot fascinates scientists for ages, so it does me. Where can I find a table (e.g. as CSV-file) with the time evolution of longitude, latitude, horizontal and vertical extension of the Great Red Spot? I am sure somebody did already invest the time to extract such a time series from all available (historical) records and images, but it looks like I am searching a needle in a haystack.

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There is dozends of nice images and other sources around, for instance:

Longitude and latitude on Jupiter is not so trivial, see F. Bagenal & R. J. Wilson: Jupiter Coordinate Systems from 2016.

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    $\begingroup$ The NASA 2018 page leads to this paper: doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aaae01 The data for Figure 2 (variations in size and drift rate since 1880) is available as a txt file, but you could easily convert it to csv format. $\endgroup$ – Jean-Marie Prival Jan 20 at 11:17
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    $\begingroup$ Wow, that's a good start. What about the position of the spot (relative to magnetic reference frame)? That should exist only since recently. $\endgroup$ – B--rian Jan 20 at 11:55
  • $\begingroup$ No luck so far... $\endgroup$ – Jean-Marie Prival Jan 20 at 13:31

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