http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080523.html

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" Explanation: For about 300 years Jupiter's banded atmosphere has shown a remarkable feature to telescopic viewers, a large swirling storm system known as The Great Red Spot. In 2006, another red storm system appeared, actually seen to form as smaller whitish oval-shaped storms merged and then developed the curious reddish hue. Now, Jupiter has a third red spot, again produced from a smaller whitish storm. All three are seen in this image made from data recorded on May 9 and 10 with the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. The spots extend above the surrounding clouds and their red color may be due to deeper material dredged up by the storms and exposed to ultraviolet light, but the exact chemical process is still unknown. For scale, the Great Red Spot has almost twice the diameter of planet Earth, making both new spots less than one Earth-diameter across. The newest red spot is on the far left (west), along the same band of clouds as the Great Red Spot and is drifting toward it. If the motion continues, the new spot will encounter the much larger storm system in August. Jupiter's recent outbreak of red spots is likely related to large scale climate change as the gas giant planet is getting warmer near the equator."

LOOK WHAT YOU STUPID HUMANS HAVE DONE NOW!

NO DRILLING IN ANWR! STOP DESTROYING THE RAIN FORESTS! NO TO CORPORATE GREED!

5/23/2008 2:27:42 PM

mmm sunny side up

5/23/2008 2:28:49 PM

OEUVRE YOU ARE BANISHED FROM THIS UNIVERSE FOR SUCH BELIEFS IN LOWER GAS PRICES AT THE COST OF RABID BATS!

5/23/2008 2:29:50 PM

Sweet deal. We're finally spreading democracy to Jupiter.

5/23/2008 2:30:07 PM

those damn jupiterians

i told them that they were using too much oil

but did they listen

no

and now they have another superstorm

idiots

5/23/2008 2:30:14 PM

your stupid

... but seriously, your argument is full of FAIL

5/23/2008 2:30:41 PM

Once Obama controls planet Earth in its entirety he will then have spare time to solve the Jovian problems that have plagued them for eons of time.

He will save us all!!!!

5/23/2008 2:31:31 PM

It's ok, Jupiter has an Al Gore too. He invented the Jupiternet over there too.

5/23/2008 2:36:35 PM

WHY

DO

YOU

HATE

JUPITER'S

FREEDOMS

?

5/23/2008 2:37:46 PM

that's a really beautiful pic


they totally need to throw a probe into one of those spots and see what happens to it

5/23/2008 2:39:02 PM

Doubt you'd see anything anyway. Jupiter is all gas, no solids, so it's atmosphere is thick and dense.

You'd get some good instrument readings though.

5/23/2008 2:40:43 PM

This is why we can't have nice things.

5/23/2008 2:50:22 PM

dadgum Hubble never ceases to amaze me.

5/23/2008 2:53:18 PM

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"they totally need to throw a probe into one of those spots and see what happens to it"

they had a probe dive into part of jupiter years ago. the planet is somewhere near ~150,000 km in diameter. it made it 150km before it lost contact. so not really very far at all.

also, the red giant spot is twice as large as earth, so its pretty much be destroyed immediately upon entering that storm.

5/23/2008 3:03:23 PM

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"they totally need to throw a probe into one of those spots"

And uh, it's talking about Jupiter's climate change, not how Earth's is affecting it.

5/23/2008 3:09:52 PM

really genius? maybe my all caps led you to believe that this was a legitimate thread.

[Edited on May 23, 2008 at 3:12 PM. Reason : .]

5/23/2008 3:12:01 PM

sorry that I missed the sarcasm through capital lettering

5/23/2008 3:13:15 PM

i was in until you said 'no greed'...

5/23/2008 3:14:06 PM

it's all the same movement

5/23/2008 3:15:10 PM