Posted on 01/09/2022 3:48:44 PM PST by MtnClimber
Explanation: What will become of Jupiter's Great Red Spot? Gas giant Jupiter is the solar system's largest world with about 320 times the mass of planet Earth. Jupiter is home to one of the largest and longest lasting storm systems known, the Great Red Spot (GRS), visible to the left. The GRS is so large it could swallow Earth, although it has been shrinking. Comparison with historical notes indicate that the storm spans only about one third of the exposed surface area it had 150 years ago. NASA's Outer Planets Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) program has been monitoring the storm more recently using the Hubble Space Telescope. The featured Hubble OPAL image shows Jupiter as it appeared in 2016, processed in a way that makes red hues appear quite vibrant. Modern GRS data indicate that the storm continues to constrict its surface area, but is also becoming slightly taller, vertically. No one knows the future of the GRS, including the possibility that if the shrinking trend continues, the GRS might one day even do what smaller spots on Jupiter have done -- disappear completely.
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I think that is how it is supposed to work. If it doesn't work you will be too miserable to notice.
Global Warming is the cause of the shrinkage. The solution requires societal regimentation and impoverishment by taxation.
Damn it all, you beat me to it. :-)
What I thought of.
Any big 1x4x9 things seen floating in space nearby?
I swear, it’s smaller than it was when I first saw it through a telescope 50 years ago.
LOL!
I have enjoyed all 3 this weekend. Just doing my part.
I think those in the field of astronomy really get off on screwing with common people.
Theres no reason that there isnt also a statement on these images down in the corner stating what these images actually are other than to get a chuckle out the beliefs of the common unwashed.
For example there is no reason they dont add a line on images like that IR image above formatted something like “type of image/name of equipment”. It seems so haphazard and unprofessional that one would document who but not what. I certainly couldnt get away with that.
A good example of what Im saying is those “pictures” of Pluto that were floating around recently. All kinds of secondary sources published these “pictures” with no caption. When I first saw these I knew that the surface of Pluto was not lavender and lime. It took me a bit of digging to find out that it was an image that mapped distribution of some minerals on the surface.
You know most people didnt bother to try to understand what they were looking at, they just accepted what the media told them.
Those that completed their research with public money, in particular organizations like NASA, should be working to improve public knowledge of the subject and not getting their jollies off the people from whom the money was stolen that dont have degrees in astronomy.
Sure, we can blame much of the problems on the media and the way it fails to report properly but the confusion starts at the source. Yes, I think better documentation from all branches of science is necessary when it is released to the public. Instead of adding a simple line of text that properly educates the masses, we know have a citizenry that believes that space is a spray of rainbows punctuated by planets in glowing tie dyed t-shirts.
Thanks MtnClimber. As long as it doesn't align with Mars, cool.
The Jupitarians need to switch to solar green power
Fair enough. I didn’t.
It might turn blue....
Global warming is shrinking the red spot!
Jupiter finally found a giant tube of Clearasil.......................
Preparation H or Clearasil?.................
“Red Spot Shrinks” - Trump’s fault?
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