Question

What is the feature known as the "Great Dark Spot" of Neptune? It is an apparently permanent feature about five times the size of Earth, similar to the Great Red Spot of Jupiter, near Neptune's south pole. It was a dark hole in the upper atmosphere left by the collision of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. It was an apparently temporary feature about the size of Earth, similar to the Great Red Spot of Jupiter, but disappeared within a few years. It is a dark surface feature on the surface snow layers caused by radiation discoloration of the older layers. It is a permanent discoloration of the north polar region of Neptune caused by locally prevailing lower surface temperatures there.

Answer 1

It was an apparently temporary feature about the size of Earth, similar to the Great Red Spot of Jupiter, but disappeared within a few years.

Step-by-step explanation:

The Great Dark Spot of Neptune was an immense spinning storm in the southern atmosphere of Neptune. The size of the entire Earth, it had the strongest winds ever recorded on any planet in the solar system. It was discovered by the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1989, but by 1994 the Hubble Space Telescope saw it was gone.

The Great Red Spot is a storm found in Jupiter's southern hemisphere, with similar characteristics to the Great Dark Spot.