Jupiter's Little White Spot Turns Red

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Jupiter's Little White Spot Turns Red

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday October 12, 2006 @05:22AM from the time-for-space-prom dept.

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."

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We Need to Do Something by eldavojohn · 2006-10-12 05:23 · Score: 4, Funny

Science: Jupiter's Little White Spot Turns Red
Look, I've read about this guy, and we do not want to piss him off.

Ok, we have Gold Bond Medicated Powder, we have astronauts, let's get up there and fix this!

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1. Re:We Need to Do Something by Amazing+Quantum+Man · 2006-10-12 05:40 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Jupiter has a zit!!!!
  
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2. Re:We Need to Do Something by MobileTatsu-NJG · 2006-10-12 07:21 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  "Jupiter has a zit!!!!"
  
  I didn't think this would happen until the planet crossed into the constellation Herpes.
  
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slashdot needs to check its demographic by sentientbrendan · 2006-10-12 05:27 · Score: 4, Funny

for most of us, these are not local weather conditions.
Uh oh by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · 2006-10-12 05:31 · Score: 4, Funny

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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An insult to Jupitarians! by hellfire · 2006-10-12 05:45 · Score: 4, Funny

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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1. Re:An insult to Jupitarians! by Anonymous Coward · 2006-10-12 06:05 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  As a purple hermaphroditic Jupitarian meteorological geek living on Europa
  
  Ugh! Eurotrash.