come back to Nwalins Jupitor Children....I promise you it will be a Chocolate Nwalins Jupitor and I will be serving my chocolate salty balls.
Posted on 05/04/2006 10:38:47 AM PDT by RightCanuck
A storm is brewing half a billion miles away and in a rare event, astronomers get to watch it closely.
Jupiter is growing a new red spot and the Hubble Space Telescope is photographing the scene. Backyard astronomers have been following the action, too.
"Red Spot Jr." as it is being called, formed after three white oval-shaped storms—two of which were at least 90 years old—merged between 1998 and 2000.
A similar merger took place centuries ago and formed the bigger and legendary Great Red Spot, a storm twice as big as Earth and almost 300 years old.
Close look
Close inspections of Red Spot Jr., in Hubble images released today, reveal that similar to the Great Red Spot, the more recently developed storm rises above the top of the main cloud deck on Jupiter.
Little is known about how storms form on the giant planet. They are often described as behaving similar to hurricanes on Earth. Some astronomers believe that the spots dredge up material deep below Jupiter's clouds and lift it to where the Sun's ultraviolet light chemically alters it to give it a red hue.
The latest images could provide evidence that Jupiter is in the midst of a global change that can modify temperatures by as much as 10 degrees Fahrenheit on different parts of the globe.
The study was led jointly by Imke de Pater and Philip Marcus of University of California, Berkeley.
"The storm is growing in altitude," de Pater said. "Before when they were just ovals they didn't stick out above the clouds. Now they are rising."
This growth signals a temperature increase in that region, she said.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
Is there tossed salad on Uranus?
Given the behavior of Jupiter as chronicled in Graeco-Roman mythology, a few STD symptoms are only to be expected.
come back to Nwalins Jupitor Children....I promise you it will be a Chocolate Nwalins Jupitor and I will be serving my chocolate salty balls.
That would still keep Jupiter about 250 degrees south of freezing.
LOL!!!!!!!
http://www.enterprisemission.com/hurricane4.htm
Take a look at this link and scroll about 1/3 to 1/2 way down and you will see a pic with the planets on them including the Sun which gives a statement on how GW (global warming) has affected them.
I think it's time we eliminate SUVs from all other planets to stop the GWB (Global Warming Boondoggle).
You think the Martians and the Jupiterians will go along with that?
"It's Bush's fault, of course. Probably because of that scientific probe that he sent into the Jupiter atmosphere."
It could be. Read this article.
http://www.enterprisemission.com/NukingJupiter.html
Hear, hear!
http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/ast121/lectures/lec19.html
Jupiter link, it's a gas!
I couldn't be responsible for Solar System Warming, I only drive on cold days. Must be someone else's fault.
The Great Dark Spot on Uranus appears and disappears.
http://www.solarsystem.org.uk/neptune/
"Although similar in many ways, the Great Dark Spot seems to have been formed much deeper in the atmosphere than Jupiter’s blemish. The Dark Spot was thought to be a long-term feature, but observations by Voyager 2 and the Hubble space telescope showed the marking disappear rapidly and then reappear elsewhere. Apparently extremely rapid large-scale changes are common on Neptune."
I gotta get me one of those!
I want mine in the shape of a pyramid though.
I agree. The point being though, that even elimintating the SUV (or other "sources" of CO2) from the equation, the EFFECTS of GW, caused primarily by increased output from the Sun would STILL be disruptive.
Jupiter gets another zit.
This shows that global warming is much, much, worse than previously thought.
LOL
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