Jupiter’s ‘Great Red Spot’ Is Shrinking

[Jimbo07]

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

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

I guess, technically its the largest storm in the universe that we know of!

"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!"

Those scientists... always trying to get rich through climate-change grants!

 

[anglolawyer]

How long has the storm been going on?

 

[s4zando]

Since I was in the third grade, at the very least. Maybe more.

 

[alfaniner]

Camera-shy, perhaps?

No... Probably just got out of a cold swimming pool.

 

[Brown]

The storm has shrunken so much that it is now known as the "Ordinary Red Spot"; you heard it here first.

 

[rjh01]

How long has the storm been going on?

Galileo observed it. He was the first person to look at the planet via a telescope.

 

[anglolawyer]

Galileo observed it. He was the first person to look at the planet via a telescope.

So it could have been there for thousands or even millions of years. I wonder what it's like on the 'ground'. Do gas giants have a ground or is it gas all the way down?

 

[Monketi Ghost]

So it could have been there for thousands or even millions of years. I wonder what it's like on the 'ground'. Do gas giants have a ground or is it gas all the way down?

It increases in density all the way down. You'd never touch anything like a liquid, it isn't as differentiated as earth's atmosphere but pressure differences change it from a gas in the clouds to more solidified layers. I think there's an iron core. Something has to account for Jupiter's magnetosphere.

 

[Mister Earl]

So it could have been there for thousands or even millions of years. I wonder what it's like on the 'ground'. Do gas giants have a ground or is it gas all the way down?

If memory serves, there's just a transition zone where it goes from a gas to a liquid. And it probably doesn't even have a surface.

 

[angrysoba]

Jupiter’s ‘Great Red Spot’ Is Shrinking

That Clearasil's finally taking effect then.

 

[MG1962]

Galileo observed it. He was the first person to look at the planet via a telescope.

Not really - Galileo never recorded the spot, or any spot on Jupiter. It is generally agreed Cassini may have been the first, but even then identification is a little uncertain.

Officially the spot has only been recorded since the early 19th century

 

[John Jones]

The storm has shrunken so much that it is now known as the "Ordinary Red Spot"; you heard it here first.

I like it.

 

[John Jones]

It increases in density all the way down. You'd never touch anything like a liquid, it isn't as differentiated as earth's atmosphere but pressure differences change it from a gas in the clouds to more solidified layers. I think there's an iron core. Something has to account for Jupiter's magnetosphere.

It's all those 1² x 2² x 3² monoliths.

Plus the H₃⁺ cations.

Jupiter has some exotic chemistry. At one time, it was speculated that there was a solid hydrogen core that accounted for that magnetic field.

 

[casebro]

Hickeys do go away after a while.

Has Jupiter been hanging out with that little tramp Ganymede?

 

[rjh01]

Yes you are right.

The first record of the Great Red Spot is a drawing made in 1831 by German amateur astronomer Samuel Heinrich Schwabe of the “Hollow” in which the spot sits. <snip> It may be the same storm as the so-called “Permanent Spot” that was discovered in 1665 by Italian astronomer Gian Domenico Cassini and last seen in 1713.

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/243638/Great-Red-Spot

 

[angrysoba]

Hickeys do go away after a while.

Has Jupiter been hanging out with that little tramp Ganymede?

A friend of mine who was interested in the planet Jupiter used to use an email address using the name ganymede and his birth year. He did not know the connotations of the name from its association with the Greek myth until, at the age of about 18 and onwards, he started getting propositioned by email from classically-influenced older homosexual men.