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Jupiter's Little White Spot Turns Red
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timothy
on Thu Oct 12, 2006 01:22 PM
from the time-for-space-prom dept.
from the time-for-space-prom dept.
Feelyat writes "NASA is reporting that a small storm that formed on Jupiter last year has changed color from white to red. According to an article in Yahoo News, scientist Amy Simon-Miller speculates that the storm might have gained strength as it decreased in size, similar to how 'spinning ice skaters go faster when they move their arms closer.' She says that the storm has probably 'picked up red material from lower in the Jupiter atmosphere, most likely some form of sulfur which turns red as part of a chemical reaction ...' Well, we might be one planet down, but our Solar System can still surprise."
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We Need to Do Something (Score:5, Funny)
Ok, we have Gold Bond Medicated Powder [goldbond.com], we have astronauts, let's get up there and fix this!
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I didn't think this would happen until the planet crossed into the constellation Herpes.
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Not Gold Bond (Score:2, Interesting)
Yesterday's News, but how about comet SWAN? (Score:5, Informative)
Read all about it before the Lidle crash took the top spots on Google News. It's interesting, but really, Jupiter is always up to something with that turbulent atmosphere. Streams of spots have appeared in the past and vanished again. [space.com] This will probably hang around for a bit and then go the way of other spots.
Meanwhile, there's Comet C/2006 M4 (SWAN) [nasa.gov], which is near it's peak magnitude, visible just after sunset which is my primary viewing target [heavens-above.com] this weekend. It's going to be around until early December, but at declining magnitudes.
Ob ISR Post:
In Soviet Russia little reds spot YOU!
you hear the ghost of Bill Goodwin ellaborating on swan, the new white floating comet
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slashdot needs to check its demographic (Score:5, Funny)
An insult to Jupitarians! (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:An insult to Jupitarians! (Score:4, Informative)
-nB
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Re:An insult to Jupitarians! (Score:5, Funny)
Ugh! Eurotrash.
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But it's our responsibility! (Score:3, Funny)
to other planets. I bet we melted the Martian polar ice
caps as well. My relatives back on Mars are pretty pissed
about that; I bet they retaliate soon.
Atmospheric turbulence (Score:5, Informative)
Uh oh (Score:5, Funny)
ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA
ATTEMPS NO LANDING THERE
USE THEM TOGETHER
USE THEM IN PEACE
It's all in caps though, so it's probably spam...
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Re:Uh oh - reinterpretation of a reinterpretation (Score:3, Funny)
war was ending
Dr. Chandra: What happen?
HAL: Somebody set up us the monolith
HAL: We get signal, Dave
Dr Chanrda: What?!
HAL: Main screen turn on
Dr Chandra: it's you!
Dave: How are you gentlemen?
Monolith: All your Europa are belong to us
Monolith: Land there are you are on the way to destruction
Dr Chandra: What you say!!
Monolith: You have chance to make your peace
Dave: Ha Ha Ha Ha
Monolith: Take off every other planet together
Dave: Take off every Leonev
Dr. Chandra: Move Leonev
Hal: For great justice
Title??? (Score:5, Informative)
The Little Red Spot's winds, now raging up to approximately 400 miles per hour, signal that the storm is growing stronger, according to the NASA-led team that made the Hubble observations. The increased intensity of the storm probably caused it to change color from its original white in late 2005, according to the team
It turned red last year and now its just stronger. Please editors RTFA!!!
ONE planet down? (Score:2)
Uh, Mars?
Cheers,
IT
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My theory (Score:2)
Oh no! (Score:2)
Why does this always happen on a Thursday? I'd recommend putting some cream on that, it should disappear by tomorrow, just in time for Ashley's party too (Jordan will be there, he's well yummy). Don't squeeze it though, that'll leave a scar.
Discovered by an amateur (Score:3, Insightful)
Even in the day of the great orbiting observatories and huge ground based intereferometers, there is still room for amateurs working with modest equipment to make discoveries.
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That the next colour is blue. It's the only way they could get Bush to fund the the space programme you see... the Pointless American TRIO (of colours) Trip Act.
Well, it is campaign season in the US and wind velocity has certainly increased and swirled between Capitol Hill and Florida, spinning, ever spining. But you know Bush doesn't want to see a Blue State on Jupiter. Or was astrology more the forte of the Reagans?
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And if we see this Jovian carnage take place, do we call ourselves Jovians Witnesses?