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Cassini (en route to Saturn) Provides Best-ever Picture of Jupiter
Space Daily ^ | November 18, 2003 | NASA

Posted on 11/18/2003 9:48:16 AM PST by cogitator

Cassini Imaging Team Create Most Detailed Jupiter Portrait Ever

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cassini; greatredspot; jupiter; littleredspot; saturn
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To: cogitator; RadioAstronomer
For those on a broadband connection, you can download the image in its full glory here (13.8 MB .tif file @ 1900x2400)....
21 posted on 11/18/2003 12:07:26 PM PST by general_re (Spot the tenuous connection...)
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To: cogitator
The Red Spot: sure looks like there is something going on below the atmosphere. Something at least semi-permanent sticking up from the solid surface. Is there a solid surface?
22 posted on 11/18/2003 12:10:42 PM PST by RightWhale (Close your tag lines)
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To: RightWhale
The Red Spot: sure looks like there is something going on below the atmosphere. Something at least semi-permanent sticking up from the solid surface. Is there a solid surface?

Way, way down, maybe it has a solid hydrogen core. But I don't think that there's full agreement on that.

Several years ago I recall that a group did a simulation of planetary gaseous circulation, and a stable "storm" like the Great Red Spot turned out to be a normal condition for an atmosphere like Jupiter's. That's about all I remember.

23 posted on 11/18/2003 1:03:31 PM PST by cogitator
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To: cogitator
Somewhere down there is metallic hydrogen. Metallic usually connotes solid, BUT could there be continents or islands in this metallic hydrogen? There can be unusual resonances in atmospheric jet streams, but such resonances don't look like the Red Spot. There could be an unstable, travelling, mid-state node--perhaps someone thinks he is seeing that.
24 posted on 11/18/2003 1:15:40 PM PST by RightWhale (Close your tag lines)
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To: Serb5150
I would have missed this one, by Jove...thank you...)
25 posted on 11/18/2003 3:13:25 PM PST by jwfiv
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Now there is also a black spot on Jupiter.
It is not a shadow, but is thought to be the
the result of a nuclear explosion caused by the
Galileo spacecraft that plunged into Jupiter recently.

26 posted on 11/18/2003 3:28:29 PM PST by Consort
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To: Consort
Reeeeaaaly... I had not heard about that. Please expound.
27 posted on 11/19/2003 6:59:46 AM PST by ericthecurdog
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To: ericthecurdog; Consort
Yes. Please.
28 posted on 11/19/2003 7:06:46 AM PST by Skooz (We keep you alive to serve this ship. Row well, and live.)
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To: cogitator
VERY cool. Link bookmarked. Bump.
29 posted on 11/19/2003 7:16:33 AM PST by RightOnline
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To: cogitator
Looks like dessert!

A beautiful picture. Thanks
30 posted on 11/19/2003 7:20:12 AM PST by P.O.E.
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To: skeeter
I wonder what it would take to light that baby up.

I'm not sure why, but that got my funny bone pretty good!

31 posted on 11/19/2003 7:25:15 AM PST by Lowcountry
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To: ericthecurdog
It's speculation by people like Richard Hoagland. Others disagree with him.

Mystery Spot...

32 posted on 11/19/2003 8:09:27 AM PST by Consort
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To: cogitator
Thanks for the picture. It's now my wallpaper.
33 posted on 11/19/2003 10:15:39 AM PST by Skooz (We keep you alive to serve this ship. Row well, and live.)
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