Galileo's Flyby of Almathea 169
An anonymous reader writes "The spectacular Galileo flybys of Jupiter, Europa and Io are largely credited with the discovery of frozen water ice and some of the earliest examples of non-solar (tidal) heating anywhere in our solar system. For the next 10 days, Galileo scientists are preparing for their next target: probing one of Jupiter's moons, Almathea, at the close-up range of 100 miles. Almathea is one of the most unusual moons in the solar system, because it gives off more heat than it receives from the Sun."
frozen water ice? (Score:4, Funny)
Gives out more heat that it recieves. (Score:5, Funny)
Yes i know there are other explainations
Almathea must be overclocked (Score:3, Funny)
I'm a little Confused (Score:3, Funny)
Boy you sure learn something new everyday reading Slashdot!
heat generator (Score:5, Funny)
And NASA releases a picture of the Intel Inside logo on the surface...
what are they hoping to find? (Score:4, Funny)
or maybe the worlds biggest overclocked processor.
I can't think of any other reasonable theory to account for this moon radiating so much heat.
Earth has Moon Envy (Score:5, Funny)
I mean, that's the only explanation I can come up with. Ours just...you know, sits there. We go there once, get bored and come back. So we spend our time looking at other planets' moons instead of making it back to ours. I mean really. Give our moon some lubbin'!
Almathea? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I'm a little Confused (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Looking at Jupiter and its moons (Score:5, Funny)
Well, I think I speak (type?) for all of us here - did you, in fact, get some?
Monolith? (Score:5, Funny)
Almathea? (Score:3, Funny)
No problem, guv. These other moons look much more interesting.
Kierthos
Re:what are they hoping to find? (Score:3, Funny)
Perhaps the 65,000 processors in IBM's new computer [slashdot.org]?
Reminds me of... (Score:3, Funny)
Funny. My girl does the same thing during the more active cycles.
Re:Looking at Jupiter and its moons (Score:4, Funny)
I think so.
Requisite Star Wars quote (Score:2, Funny)
Re:what are they hoping to find? (Score:3, Funny)
Doesn't Io's volcanic activity come from jupiter's pull?
That would be my first guess...
That or the monolith [imdb.com] left the hot plate pluged in...
Re:Looking at Jupiter and its moons (Score:5, Funny)
You're talking 'bout the girl now right?
Re:Almathea? (Score:5, Funny)
All these moon are belong to you.
Except Europa. Europa are belong to us.
You have no chance to survive, make your time.
Move "Discovery"! For great monolith!
Hmm, I think must've seen the Japanese translation...
Re:Spacecraft dimensions (Score:2, Funny)