That's quite a difference: http://i.imgur.com/ISCI3.png http://i.imgur.com/ISCI3.png Note that the Great Red Spot is in the same location where the stripe used

That's quite a difference: http://i.imgur.com/ISCI3.png http://i.imgur.com/ISCI3.png Note that the Great Red Spot is in the same location where the stripe used to be. I'm surprised they didn't mean that in the article. If you look at how the Great Red Spot spins against the southern stripe, you can imagine it gobbling up the stripe: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/790106-0203_Voyager_58M_to_31M_reduced.gif http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/790106-02...