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

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[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.

[SubMareener]

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

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

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

[Candor7]

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

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

Its the SUN that causes it!

LOL.

[crosdaddy]

Man, that thing needs popping.

[Ken H]

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

[CaliforniaCraftBeer]

[21twelve]

Stupid scientists. I knew this back in First Grade!

“See Spot.
See Spot go...”

[Songcraft]

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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[dfwgator]

"I knew it!"

[Songcraft]

:-)

[ifinnegan]

“Global Warming?”

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

[Vendome]

Damn you Trump! !!

[Fester Chugabrew]

Time for another fundraiser.

[Ken H]

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

[Secret Agent Man]

Cooling. Sunspot activity reduction.

[Rebelbase]

OMG, it’s spreading to other planets!

[The Duke]

I hate it when that happens!

[publius911]

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...

[Songcraft]

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

[avenir]

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