[Frenchtown Dan]

Very interesting and mysterious. The Sun's effect?

[massmike]

global warming!

[pgkdan]

Nibiru did it! Uh Oh! ;-)

[oh8eleven]

Jupiter loses one of its stripes ...
Court martial?

[Cailleach]

So, Jupiter dropped trou and is mooning us?!

[ETL]

"It is not the first time this unusual phenomenon has been noticed. Jupiter loses or regains one of its belts every ten of 15 years, although exactly why this happens is a mystery.

The planet is a giant ball of gas and liquid around 500million miles from the Sun. It's surface is composed of dense red, brown, yellow, and white clouds arranged in light-coloured areas called zones and darker regions called belts.

These clouds are created by chemicals that have formed at different heights. The highest white clouds in the zones are made of crystals of frozen ammonia. Darker, lower clouds are created from chemicals including sulphur and phosphorus. The clouds are blown into bands by 350mph winds caused by Jupiter's rapid rotation.

Noted Jupiter watcher Anthony Wesley, who spotted an impact spot on its surface last year, has tracked the disappearing belt from his back garden in Australia.

'It was obvious last year that it was fading. It was closely observed by anyone watching Jupiter,' he told The Planetary Society.

'There was a big rush on to find out what had changed once it came back into view.'

Mr Wesley said while it was a mystery as to what had caused the belt to fade, the most likely explanation was that it was linked to storm activity that preceded the change.

'The question now is when will the South Equatorial belt erupt back into activity and reappear?' Mr Wesley said."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1277734/Jupiter-loses-stripes-scientists-idea-why.html

[LearnsFromMistakes]

Maybe someone took Jupiter and replaced it with a cheap fake...

[WayneS]

Maybe a leopard really CAN change its shorts.

[FrogMom]

Wonder if the socialists taxed it away?

[al_c]

Maybe Jupiter finally realized that boob-belts were not all that fashionable after all.

[frithguild]

WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!

[Red Badger]

It must have tortured one of its captured moons!.................

[Larry Lucido]

The stripes made it look fat.

[LonePalm]

It's just resting. Maybe if we sent it a few trillion bottles of

it will get up, stand up, mon.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[Uri’el-2012]

Jupiter loses one of its stripes and scientists are stumped

Perhaps a wonder in the heaven ?

Iceland a pillar of smoke ?

Joel Chapter 3

3 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and
in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.

4 The sun shall be turned into darkness,
and the moon into blood, before the great
and terrible day of YHvH come.

5 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever
shall call on the name of YHvH shall be delivered;

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach

[listenhillary]

There goes the neighborhood. What are they going to steal next?

[count-your-change]

Recession. The cost of keeping all the stripes was just too much.

[seawolf101]

Al Gore will find a way to blame this on global warming and sell carbon credits so he can fly around in his private jet buying multi-million dollar homes. All this while telling everyone else that they have to reduce their carbon footprint.