Small Dark Spot

Great Dark Spot (top), Scooter (middle white cloud), and Small Dark Spot (bottom).
A high-resolution view of the Small Dark Spot

The Small Dark Spot, sometimes also called Dark Spot 2 or The Wizard's Eye, was an extraterrestrial vortex on the planet Neptune.[1][2] It was the second largest southern cyclonic storm on the planet in 1989, when Voyager 2 flew by the planet. When the Hubble Space Telescope observed Neptune in 1994, the storm had disappeared.[3]

  1. ^ "Historic Hurricanes". Solar System Exploration. NASA. Archived from the original on June 14, 2011. Retrieved August 9, 2012.
  2. ^ "Small Dark Spot". NASA. Retrieved August 9, 2012.
  3. ^ Nemiroff, R.; Bonnell, J., eds. (August 21, 2001). "Dark Spots on Neptune". Astronomy Picture of the Day. NASA. Retrieved August 9, 2012.