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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.
for most of us, these are not local weather conditions.
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...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
When it turns red like that, it means it is infected. Call a doctor.
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?!?!
"All great wisdom is contained in .signature files"
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.
What's happening with Jupiter right now? It ate Pluto, forever ending the debate over its planetary status.
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.
The red-eye flash on the Hubble must be burnt out.
-- my sig got
Rather, Jupiters terror alert level just increased.
And if we see this Jovian carnage take place, do we call ourselves Jovians Witnesses?
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
And man, does Uranus have spots!
... and not the spot on Uranus.
"The ferrets, they're every where I tell you!"