Jupiter’s ‘Great Red Spot’ Is Shrinking

[alfaniner]

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope recently measured the famous crimson storm on the face of Jupiter at less than half the size it was a couple centuries ago (25,500 miles across) and researchers aren't certain of the cause

http://time.com/101810/jupiters-trademark-great-red-spot-is-shrinking/?hpt=hp_t2

Does anyone else hear John Lithgow shouting???

 

[Monketi Ghost]

I remember it fading. But it's a storm... it has to end some time...?

 

[casebro]

It's probably AGW causing weather extremes.

But isn't there some other planetary "climate change" going on? Something that might be used by the deniers of the A in AGW?

Mars hotter? Something....

 

[Belz...]

Well the spot has been getting fainter, but I thought it had stabilized.

 

[ravdin]

I blame the Koch brothers.

 

[Jrrarglblarg]

Thanks, Obama.

 

[s4zando]

Told ya these lucky pants stop rain. Didn't say which planet. Didn't say which rain. Checkmate, Scoftic.

 

[CynicalSkeptic]

http://www.universityherald.com/art...rming-rate-is-the-massive-storm-subsiding.htm

Jupiter's signature "Great Red Spot" is the strongest storm in the universe and it is shrinking, but scientists cannot determine the cause.

Two things: Why "Alarming" in the headline? They misspelled "Solar System"

 

[George 152]

Acne, planet sized

 

[alfaniner]

Acne, planet sized

No, that's volcanoes.

 

[Correa Neto]

Its getting ready to eject an electric comet!

 

[Corsair 115]

No, no, it's because of the monoliths.

 

[rjh01]

I suggest that before it disappears it will grow again. It is something that comes out of chaos theory.

 

[marplots]

It's a countdown.

 

[Damien Evans]

It has nearly disappeared before.

 

[shadron]

Its getting ready to eject an electric comet!

...with horns.

 

[MG1962]

It has nearly disappeared before.

In the past it has faded substantially - This time the area of disturbance is shrinking as well

 

[oody]

Camera-shy, perhaps?

 

[The Norseman]

"All those scientists, they're all alike. They say they're working for us, but what they really want to do is rule the world!"

 

[John Jones]

All these worlds are yours except Europa. Attempt no landing there. Use them together. Use them in peace

Remember when Dame Helen Mirren was the hottest thing going between Earth and Jupiter?