When to Use the Neptune Supersonic Winds 3D Explorer - Best Sessions and Limits
Open Neptune Supersonic Winds 3D Explorer when you want to compare Neptune's real peak measured wind speed against Saturn, Jupiter, and Earth, or see when the Great Dark Spot was actually observed - not to check a live or current storm on Neptune today.
A wind-record and storm-lifecycle walkthrough
A walkthrough starts at 1989, when NASA's Voyager 2 discovered the Great Dark Spot and measured peak winds of roughly 2,000-2,400 km/h nearby, then steps through the mid-1990s, when Hubble Space Telescope observations found no trace of the storm, to today, when the original spot still has not reappeared - while the wind-speed comparison table stays fixed, ranking Neptune above Saturn, Jupiter, and Earth.
Sessions this explorer does not fit
Sessions this page does not fit are checking Neptune's current live weather or any storm active today - the explorer only teaches the original 1989-to-1990s Great Dark Spot lifecycle, not later transient dark spots - or comparing Jupiter's own storm-size history, which lives on the Great Red Spot Jupiter 3D Explorer instead. Walk the controls in the step-by-step guide.
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