Mysterious bright spot found on Venus

New Scientist Space ^ | 07/29/09 | Rachel Courtland

[KevinDavis]

A strange spot emerged on Venus last week, and astronomers are not sure what caused it. They hope future observations will reveal whether volcanic activity, turbulence in the planet's atmosphere, or charged particles from the sun are to blame.

Amateur astronomer Frank Melillo of Holtsville, New York, first spotted the new feature, which is brighter than its surroundings at ultraviolet wavelengths, on the planet's southern hemisphere on 19 July. That same day, an amateur observer in Australia found a dark spot on Jupiter that had been caused by a meteoroid impact.

[KevinDavis]

[Mad Dawgg]

"Mysterious bright spot found on Venus"

In a related story: "Scientists have found a mysterious brown spot on Uranus..."

[allmost]

Correlation to low sunspots yet?

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[cliff630]

you wrote

In a related story: "Scientists have found a mysterious brown spot on Uranus

No paper on Uranus?

[Gator113]

If this turns out to be a bad thing, Obama inherited this problem from Bush.

[Vaquero]

thats that Star Trek toilet paper tv ad

“Boldly goes to Uranus and wipes out Klingons”

[fieldmarshaldj]

"I vuwwunteer to investigate !"

[justa-hairyape]

Correlation to low sunspots yet?

Not with sunspot activity in particular, but with solar activity levels, which can be primarily determined by sunspot numbers. Right now we are at weak solar activity levels which correlates to a weak solar wind. The weak solar wind is letting in more cosmic rays which causes more clouds on earth and cooling. Now you could also look at the solar wind as a directional force vector that would tend to push or force small objects that our solar system is traveling pass, away from the center of the solar system (sun). A good way to visualize this is to hold your palm flat out the car window while driving. Now angle the front of your hand up and the force of the wind will push up on your hand. Now these solar wind forces also compete with gravitational forces. Another possibility is that increased cosmic rays also apply as yet unknown force factors to the asteroids and comets within the solar system. At any rate, we live in interesting times indeed.

[GoDuke]

“Mr. Frank that’s Venus, not Penis.”

“Nevew mwind.”

[JRios1968]

Rove, you magnificent bastard...

[silverleaf]

solar system chaos heating up Venus? Could this affect its orbit?

[allmost]

They have mis interpreted the Sun's output. As usual. they are`quite incompetent.

[rsobin]

OMG ....a black hole!

[smokingfrog]

This thread is useless without pictures.

[justa-hairyape]

Now you can get large CME's Coronal Mass Ejections during weak solar activity levels, but they are rare. NASA has two satellites in orbit that watch the CME's in stereo vision 3D. Chances our they would have seen a large CME, unless it was ejected outward from the back of the sun. Would be interesting to see how earth, Venus, Jupiter and the Earth are aligned right now. Here is a decent Hulu ,movie about the Satellites NASA launched to watch the CME's in Stereo.

Hulu 3D Sun

[SunkenCiv]

:’)

Bright Spot on Venus Stumps Scientists..... (No Clue)
Space.Com | July 30th, 2009
Posted on 07/31/2009 4:07:15 PM PDT by TaraP
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2305623/posts

[SunkenCiv]

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[allmost]

I tend to like hulu movies.