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Jupiter's Great Red Spot isn't going anywhere anytime soon, according to researchers at the University of California at Berkeley.
The megastorm has been raging on the gas giant planet for the past few centuries that humans have been able to get a decent look at it, but in recent years it has appeared to be shrinking.
Concern for the imminent fate of what might be the most iconic infinite cyclone in the solar system has ramped up this year. NASA research scientist Glenn Orton told reporters earlier this year that the Great Red Spot is in "very uncharted territory," leading to a number of reports declaring the potential "death" of the spot.
But Berkeley professor of mechanical engineering Philip Marcus says the spot is in no danger of disappearing.
(Score: 4, Funny) by looorg on Sunday December 01 2019, @02:42PM (4 children)
What is causing it? Is there climate-change on Jupiter? Is it the fault of us, humans, observing it?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday December 01 2019, @04:18PM
Yes, of course it's global warming. We've damned everything we've ever looked at. Even the sun is getting hotter!
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Mojibake Tengu on Sunday December 01 2019, @04:57PM (1 child)
Not a storm at all. It is a vortex residuum of the Earth-size planet that fell onto Jupiter in very early historic times. Check the scale.
In western mythology, Zeus is a children-eater. Identity of the planet and the god is culturally established for thousands of years.
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday December 02 2019, @04:38AM
Like pre-telescope people would ever be able to figure that out when Jupiter looks like a bright dot. And since when do Earth-sized features on another planet automatically imply collision by an Earth-sized planet? Do the atmospheric bands of Jupiter come from repeated collisions with Earth-thick donuts?
And while there are some stories that Zeus has eaten his first wife, Metis while she was pregnant, he hasn't eaten children unlike his father, Saturn.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 01 2019, @11:25PM
Jupiter is depressed after finding out the man made climate change lobby was capable of so much hot air. It felt inadequate and will now try to transform into a sun to compete.