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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!!!

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by JoeMerchant on Sunday January 20 2019, @06:28PM (3 children)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Sunday January 20 2019, @06:28PM (#789095)

    With the energy and chemical soup present on Jupiter, it would be surprising to me if there were not some form of self-replicating processes going on at many layers in the atmosphere... undoubtedly hard for us to relate to as "life" - but... something. On the bright side, whatever does live there probably can't even conceive of us as edible.

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    • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Sunday January 20 2019, @07:00PM (2 children)

      by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Sunday January 20 2019, @07:00PM (#789101)

      That's an interesting thought. My problem is that I don't have the imagination to really picture a storm twice as wide as Earth.

      The numbers are just too big.

      • (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.

  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 20 2019, @06:53PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 20 2019, @06:53PM (#789099)

    Couldn't you link to a space website or even Nasa?

    But then I noticed who posted it.

    • (Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday January 20 2019, @07:02PM

      by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Sunday January 20 2019, @07:02PM (#789102) Journal

      Use the SWRI link.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 20 2019, @09:05PM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 20 2019, @09:05PM (#789132)

      It's NASA, not Nasa. Proper capitalization matters. Why doesn't anyone use proper acronyms anymore? This is getting ridiculous.

      NASA = National Aeronautical and Space Administration. It isn't the name of a person or city or country... People are causing mass confusion with these improperly (sloppily?) written acronyms all over the internet. It's at the point where no one even knows what is true or false.

  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 20 2019, @07:17PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 20 2019, @07:17PM (#789109)

    And not in the articles? This schtick hasn't been funny for years.

    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday January 20 2019, @10:32PM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Sunday January 20 2019, @10:32PM (#789163) Journal

      Can we at least keep trolling in the comments

      By all means, do keep trolling

      And not in the articles?

      (I fail to see how one can troll in something that wasn't written by the one)
      Ah, you mean, the FS(ummary/ubmission)? Why not troll there too?

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