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Jupiter's Little White Spot Turns Red
Feelyat writes "NASA is reporting that a small storm that formed on Jupiter last year has changed color from white to red. According to an article in Yahoo News, scientist Amy Simon-Miller speculates that the storm might have gained strength as it decreased in size, similar to how 'spinning ice skaters go faster when they move their arms closer.' She says that the storm has probably 'picked up red material from lower in the Jupiter atmosphere, most likely some form of sulfur which turns red as part of a chemical reaction ...' Well, we might be one planet down, but our Solar System can still surprise."
Ok, we have Gold Bond Medicated Powder, we have astronauts, let's get up there and fix this!
My work here is dung.
Read all about it before the Lidle crash took the top spots on Google News. It's interesting, but really, Jupiter is always up to something with that turbulent atmosphere. Streams of spots have appeared in the past and vanished again. This will probably hang around for a bit and then go the way of other spots.
Meanwhile, there's Comet C/2006 M4 (SWAN), which is near it's peak magnitude, visible just after sunset which is my primary viewing target this weekend. It's going to be around until early December, but at declining magnitudes.
Ob ISR Post:
In Soviet Russia little reds spot YOU!
you hear the ghost of Bill Goodwin ellaborating on swan, the new white floating comet
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Is is space day on Slashdot?
for most of us, these are not local weather conditions.
So, we've known for some time about the potential for atmospheric mixing in the Jovian atmosphere. In a way, I guess this would have been expected. For an animation of the Great Red Spot and its turbulence, click here and scroll down.
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That the next colour is blue. It's the only way they could get Bush to fund the the space programme you see... the Pointless American TRIO (of colours) Trip Act.
Well, it is campaign season in the US and wind velocity has certainly increased and swirled between Capitol Hill and Florida, spinning, ever spining. But you know Bush doesn't want to see a Blue State on Jupiter. Or was astrology more the forte of the Reagans?
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
I just got an email from blackmonolith@langrangepoint.jupiter.com that says:
ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA
ATTEMPS NO LANDING THERE
USE THEM TOGETHER
USE THEM IN PEACE
It's all in caps though, so it's probably spam...
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The Little Red Spot's winds, now raging up to approximately 400 miles per hour, signal that the storm is growing stronger, according to the NASA-led team that made the Hubble observations. The increased intensity of the storm probably caused it to change color from its original white in late 2005, according to the team
It turned red last year and now its just stronger. Please editors RTFA!!!
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When it turns red like that, it means it is infected. Call a doctor.
Well, we might be one planet down, but our Solar System can still surprise.
Uh, Mars?
Cheers,
IT
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Once winds get up that high, nobody can hang on and they just get all mashed up into a pulp of hair teeth and eyeballs. Oh and lots and lots of blood. Those poor poor people. Somewhere Yoda just said "a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced..."
Castor oil would be better.
No, I think one more red planet is good for Bush. I don't think he'd be happy with more blue planets.
there is no need to sign your posts. this isn't usenet. your username is right there above your post. stop it.
I think it was caused by increased industrial emissions by the planet's richest countries.
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Once again, a rude slashdotter assumes the only people who read slashdot are white male human computer geeks living in the United States. As a purple hermaphroditic Jupitarian meteorological geek living on Europa, I find your comment distasteful and thoughtless. When are you going to learn, you narrow-minded Terrans?!?!
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she's in heat!
Changed color from white to red
Why does this always happen on a Thursday? I'd recommend putting some cream on that, it should disappear by tomorrow, just in time for Ashley's party too (Jordan will be there, he's well yummy). Don't squeeze it though, that'll leave a scar.
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Levees are bursting on Jupiter, and the increase in the number of hurricanes has been directly linked to the SUV-related climate changes brought to you by the evil corporationy Corporations.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
First Pluto isn't a planet NOW Jupiter doesn't have a single red spot??!??!
Boy I can't wait to see the teeshirts and protests on this one.
What else is going to change in the universe? What...a new president every four years? New Pepsi??? When does it end?!??!
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Levees are bursting on Jupiter, and the increase in the number of hurricanes has been directly linked to the SUV-related climate changes brought to you by the evil corporationy Corporations.
If there's a Jovian scale SUV, Arnold will want one, bugger the new California green-house gas laws.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
I've heard of that, I think it means it has TB.
It just the little spot's monthly visitor. Probably why its been nagging the Big Red Spot so much recently. Just give her a couple days to herself; go fishing or visit that college friend in the next town over. Once you get back everything will be back to normal.
Who needs a wimpy planet like Pluto when you have Jupiter? Jupiter kicks extraterrestrial ass!
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Looking at those pictures of Jupiter, they're dated back to April 8th and 16th of 2006.
It makes me wonder... Why did NASA wait half a year before making this public? What's going on with Jupiter right now?
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Christopher Go of Cebu City Philippines discovered earlier this year that Oval BA turned red. Chris is one of the world's premier amateur planetary imagers. Check out his page dedicated to Red Jr..
Even in the day of the great orbiting observatories and huge ground based intereferometers, there is still room for amateurs working with modest equipment to make discoveries.
REUTERS - Jupiter System - Dirty hippie environmentalists all across the globe are rallying this morning in an appeal to Primal Fuxquot Xorquon to reverse her policy on atmospheric pollutants. The office of the Primal Fuxquot declined to comment, but StripePeace spokesthings stated that, "This escalation in extreme weather phenomena is a direct result of the Xorquon Administration's invasion of Io."
Ionese vapour, which tends to gather at LaGrange points, has been diffusing into the upper Jovian atmosphere for decades. Administration officials insist this gaseous mixing is a natural process, while environmental activists maintain that the corrosive bleed-off is a direct result of increased industrial activity on the occupied moon.
"When will the madness end? Will it take another Great Red Spot?" demanded chief hippie Starshine at a press conference this morning.
Scientists are divided on the matter, but a recent conference at Europa issued a position paper stating in clear terms that a majority of researchers believe atmospheric stabilization is the result of hiccoughs in the orbits of the inner pebble planets. A solution would involve billions of zoltots of spending and could encompass projects as ambitious as wiping out all Earthlings.
When pressed for comment the Earthlings this reporter was able to contact screamed and ran in terror. Updates as they develop.
These stories are free but worth money.
EVERYBODY PANIC!!!!!
This is undoubtedly mankind's fault for sending probes
to other planets. I bet we melted the Martian polar ice
caps as well. My relatives back on Mars are pretty pissed
about that; I bet they retaliate soon.
and that joke will never get old. It's just impossible.
...from suck to blow?
Fox can take the sky from you.
So that's where Hans hid Nina's body.
Evil people are out to get you.
The red-eye flash on the Hubble must be burnt out.
-- my sig got
Funny. The little white spot in my underwear just turned to a little red spot today.
Global warming. Our green house gases have increased the size of storms even on other planets.
A classic Spaceballs quote cannot go de-modded.
"Tragedy is when I cut my finger, comedy is when you fall into an open manhole and die."
--Mel Brooks.
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The white spot on Jupiter turned red? I can't afford another kid right now!
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IN AD 2010
war was ending
Dr. Chandra: What happen?
HAL: Somebody set up us the monolith
HAL: We get signal, Dave
Dr Chanrda: What?!
HAL: Main screen turn on
Dr Chandra: it's you!
Dave: How are you gentlemen?
Monolith: All your Europa are belong to us
Monolith: Land there are you are on the way to destruction
Dr Chandra: What you say!!
Monolith: You have chance to make your peace
Dave: Ha Ha Ha Ha
Monolith: Take off every other planet together
Dave: Take off every Leonev
Dr. Chandra: Move Leonev
Hal: For great justice
I'd suggest consulting a dermatologist.
And man, does Uranus have spots!
... and not the spot on Uranus.
"The ferrets, they're every where I tell you!"
Jupiter is done!
Come get it while it's hot!
You mis-spelled zotlots. This kind of error is frequently reduced by frobbing with just 1 tentacle.
There is no right to feel safe thru security vaudeville at the expense of everyone's freedom, privacy and tax money.
it has something to do with jupiter's aurora (beautiful, isn't it?)
To the original poster:
We have ten planets in our solar system. Since you can't count, I'll do it for you.
1. Mercury
2. Venus
3. Earth
4. Mars
5. Jupiter with new red spot.
6. Saturn, where the name Saturday came from.
7. Uranus
8. Neptune
9. Pluto, Dewarf PLANET.
10. Eris, Largest Dewarf Planet.
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obviously global warming is increasing the storm's intensity :-P Stop driving your SUVs people or Mercury might get hotter too!
Is it just me or is it not going to upgrade to Vista in here?
...I think this means that Jupiter is pregnant.
There's a little red spot on Jupiter today, It's the same old thing as yester... Wait a minute. You mean it was *white* yesterday? :)
Cheers,
Mark
Always running faster, chasing the happily I am ever after...
hasn't tried to pin it on Bush, Cheney, Karl Rove or some other "evil" republican. That seems to be the norm on liberal blogs anymore.
"Well, we might be one planet down, but our Solar System can still surprise."
I want to shoot whoever wrote that sentence.
"As a purple hermaphroditic Jupitarian meteorological geek living on Europa, I find your comment distasteful and thoughtless. When are you going to learn, you narrow-minded Terrans?!?!"
Oh hey, glad you showed up on Slashdot. I've been meaning to ask a gas-giant dweller such as yourself something that has puzzled me greatly. What are those glowy bits?
"Or was astrology more the forte of the Reagans?"
I think the religious right started burning astrologers at the stake last week.
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