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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Mmmmm, bacon and eggs.
Hillary sold it to Putin along with 20% of our uranium.
Did someone “Shout It Out”?
Neptune has a similar “white spot” that is also shrinking. Sunspot activity is at a nadir in its cycle. We know solar activity drives the weather on earth, so my estimation is that solar cycles play into the expansion and shrinkage of Great Spots on Jupiter and Neptune.
Beat me to it!
Wow! Oxy Clean really does clean even the toughest spots!
Climate Change on Jupiter!
Trump’s fault...
The red spot knows what happened at Benghazi
I doubt that the planetary scientists know enough about the history, structure & underlying mechanisms of the Great Red Spot to draw any serious conclusions about the spot “disappearing within our lifetimes.” This article is not science, is “pop science”, which is not the same thing.
Well, given that the GRS (ooh, I can hang with the cool astronomer kids now) wasn’t always there, I suppose it’s inevitable that it will eventually disappear.
Global Warming.
First conclusion here as well.
Mo' Money
B.S.
If we give credence to Immanuel Velikovsky’s theory that like the legend, the planet Venus sprang from Jupiter, then the Great Rad Spot could be the place where the proto-planet emerged.
Oh NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, it’s gotta somehow be our fault, lets spend a trillion or two on remedies.............sarc
Maybe Jupiter has been eating Tide Pods.
Looks like a San Francisco sidewalk.
Aren’t we obligated to try to stop this climate change?
Are there any spots on Uranus?
My God! Why doesn’t the government do something!?!?
Trump making Jupiter great again.
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