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posted by takyon on Sunday January 20 2019, @05:52PM   Printer-friendly
from the high-windspeed-collision dept.

NASA's Juno spacecraft captures Jupiter's massive storms, revealing planet's 'striking blemish'

Deep in outer space, two powerful storms brewed near Jupiter's iconic Red Spot. And the planet's colorful, swirling clouds became even more mesmerizing — a feat space enthusiasts may not have imagined was possible.

NASA's Juno spacecraft captured the stunning sight during a recent flyby in late December, though the agency only just released the images on Thursday. The spacecraft was about 23,000 to 34,000 miles from the top of the planet's clouds at the time. [...] The photos show a huge storm called Oval BA hovering near the Great Red Spot. The "striking blemish" on Jupiter's surface is about twice as wide as Earth

All agree that Andrew Jackson was V.G.L. -- Very Good Looking. But this looks even better. Thinking of ordering the Hard Copy to hang in my office. Bye Andy!!!

Also at SWRI.


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Sunday January 20 2019, @07:34PM (1 child)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Sunday January 20 2019, @07:34PM (#789112)

    picture a storm twice as wide as Earth.

    The numbers are just too big.

    That's the thing... if there are any self replicating processes possible in ANY of Jupiter's environments... the way the Earth is such a huge and varied cooking pot for life, Jupiter's atmosphere is I can't even begin to guess how many orders of magnitude larger in volume.

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  • (Score: 2) by schad on Monday January 21 2019, @12:53AM

    by schad (2398) on Monday January 21 2019, @12:53AM (#789274)

    I read a book once that featured the protagonist falling, sans spacesuit, through the atmosphere of a gas giant. He had been deposited within a ribbon of breathable air at survivable pressure and Earth-like gravity, I believe while riding in a boat, and it took him some time to realize what was happening. I think it took him an hour or so before he either fell completely through it or a storm blew through.

    I don't know how scientifically likely the existence of such a ribbon is, but it's at least superficially believable.