Jupiter Gets New Red Spot

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday March 3, 2006 @06:48PM from the presents-for-planets dept.

saskboy writes "The planet Jupiter is growing a new red spot. Jupiter is already well known for its Great Red Spot storm which is visible through modest backyard telescopes, so it will be interesting if this newer spot sticks around and grows. From the article: 'The official name of this storm is Oval BA, but Red Jr. might be better. It's about half the size of the famous Great Red Spot and almost exactly the same color. Oval BA first appeared in the year 2000 when three smaller spots collided and merged. A similar merger centuries ago may have created the original Great Red Spot, a storm twice as wide as our planet and at least 300 years old.'"

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Re:Contagious ? by hedge_death_shootout · 2006-03-03 23:39 · Score: 0, Troll

Maybe *this* will persuade BU$HITLER and the NEOCONS that global warming isn't a myth!! goddamnit!!!!!1!!11!1!!111eleven!!!
Hadley cell,gone kattywompus by lazy+genes · 2006-03-04 16:08 · Score: -1, Troll

My guess is that the red spot is a hadley cell that streched itself over the southern pole and got cut off.It could also be the southern occolation system that has moved to the equator due to gravatational pull.I would like to see a temperature contour plot of the planet. anyway my observations could not find any hadley cells in the southern hemisphere.Could this happen to earth if the poles warm unevenly?