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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot may be dying, and could disappear within our lifetimes
BGR.com ^

Posted on 02/19/2018 8:57:01 PM PST by BenLurkin

“In truth, the GRS has been shrinking for a long time,” Glenn Orton of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory told Business Insider. The storm was once as large as four times the diameter of Earth, but more recent observations have shown that it’s rapidly losing steam. “Now it’s something like 13 degrees wide in longitude and only 1.3 times the size of the Earth,” Orton says. “Nothing lasts forever.”

Late last year, Juno revealed some surprising information about the huge storm, including how deep into the planet it goes. The data showed that the storm is up to 100 times deeper than Earth’s oceans, and the base of the storm is significantly hotter than the rapidly-moving winds we see in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere. Researchers still don’t know many of the specifics of what drives the storm, but it’s obvious that it’s beginning to breath its dying gasps. Within the next decade or two, the storm is likely to die out completely.

Juno makes its observations during what are known as “science passes,” which is just a fancy way of saying that all of its instruments are up and running as it cruises around the planet.

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; catastrophism; gasgiant; greatredspot; juno; junoprobe; jupiter; littleredspot; neptune; planet; science
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To: BenLurkin

My theory is that the Great Red Spot represents the wound to Jesus’ side at the Crucifixion and will disappear when He comes again.


21 posted on 02/19/2018 9:19:17 PM PST by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR)
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To: BenLurkin

Damn that Trump! The world will regret the day he was born!


22 posted on 02/19/2018 9:20:02 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them.)
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To: blam

Global Warming?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

yes, thereby proving that the activities of man do not cause global warming.

Its the SUN that causes it!

LOL.


23 posted on 02/19/2018 9:21:35 PM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Man, that thing needs popping.


24 posted on 02/19/2018 9:21:39 PM PST by crosdaddy
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To: dennisw

Very surprising. And here I thought I knew my planets.


25 posted on 02/19/2018 9:25:02 PM PST by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: BenLurkin
expertofnada
26 posted on 02/19/2018 9:29:51 PM PST by CaliforniaCraftBeer
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To: BenLurkin

Stupid scientists. I knew this back in First Grade!

“See Spot.
See Spot go...”


27 posted on 02/19/2018 9:44:56 PM PST by 21twelve
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To: BenLurkin

Well, speaking of disappearing red spots, this article brings back a memory from the dust bins in the corridors of history, of another disappearing (on paper anyway) red-spot...


        


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28 posted on 02/19/2018 9:45:47 PM PST by Songcraft ("Pray without ceasing." 1 Thessalonians 5:17)
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To: Pray All Day


"I knew it!"
29 posted on 02/19/2018 9:49:49 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

:-)

30 posted on 02/19/2018 9:51:54 PM PST by Songcraft ("Pray without ceasing." 1 Thessalonians 5:17)
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To: blam

“Global Warming?”

Example of how a planet’s climate can change without life.


31 posted on 02/19/2018 9:54:26 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: BenLurkin

Damn you Trump! !!


32 posted on 02/19/2018 10:08:04 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.cwom/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M5)
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To: BenLurkin

Time for another fundraiser.


33 posted on 02/19/2018 10:18:07 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew (Lock. Her. Up.)
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To: Pray All Day

He turns 87 on March 2. Didn’t know he was still around.


34 posted on 02/19/2018 10:23:23 PM PST by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: blam

Cooling. Sunspot activity reduction.


35 posted on 02/19/2018 10:35:32 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: blam

OMG, it’s spreading to other planets!


36 posted on 02/19/2018 10:39:27 PM PST by Rebelbase ( Hillary, DNC, DOJ and FBI colluded with a British National to influence the 2016 Pres. election)
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To: BenLurkin

I hate it when that happens!


37 posted on 02/19/2018 10:41:47 PM PST by The Duke (President Trump = America's Last, Best Chanceh)
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To: BenLurkin
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot may be dying, and could disappear within our lifetimes

Fake News...
Distraction.

Global warning crap

We're doomed!

Completely irrelevant and useless thread...

THREAD REJECTED! unread...

38 posted on 02/19/2018 10:44:59 PM PST by publius911 (Am I pissed? You have NO idea...)
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To: Ken H

Yeah, it's hard to believe, when you stop and think that he was the guy who Reagan told to tear down that wall.

39 posted on 02/19/2018 10:46:04 PM PST by Songcraft ("Pray without ceasing." 1 Thessalonians 5:17)
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To: SubMareener

Interesting theory when you consider Jupiter was created through Him, “the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world”.


40 posted on 02/19/2018 10:56:05 PM PST by avenir ("But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine."--Paul to Titus)
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