The large spot that has been orbiting Jupiter for hundreds of years and the other active spot since the early XNUMXs may merge in August
Jupiter is now brimming with spots, and a third spot has now joined the Great Red Spot and the Young (or Elliptical) Red Spot in Jupiter's atmospheric vortex. This third patch was so far a white storm but its color has changed to red and the meaning is that the storm has become stronger. Astronomers believe that the new images taken by both the Hubble Space Telescope and the Keck Telescope in Hawaii have shown that Jupiter is in the midst of major climate changes, as predicted four years ago.
One of the most striking changes that can be seen in both the Hubble Space Telescope photographs and the ground-based photographs from the Keck Observatory is the change from a gentle, quiet band that surrounded the Great Red Spot only a year ago to a vortex that surrounds the spot on both sides, says Imke de Pater of the University of California at Berkeley. "In all previous observations of Hubble and photographs by spacecraft approaching the largest planet in the Solar System since Voyager in 1979, such a vortex has only been seen once on the west or left side of the blob."
The Great Red Spot has been in place for at least 200 to 350 years, at least if the early telescope observations are anything to go by. If the New Spot and the Great Red Spot continue on their path, they will meet each other in August. Astronomers will continue to watch and see if the small oval spot will merge and become consumed within the large red spot. The Junior Red Spot is between the two spots, at a lower latitude, and is expected to pass the Great Spot in July.
The Big Spot is the eye of a storm caused by high air pressure hanging about 8 kilometers above the cloud layer. The new blob is much smaller than the other two and lies to the west of the large blob above the same horizontal band of clouds. The visible light images taken with the Wide Field Camera 2 on May 9 and 10 and with the Near Infrared Camera at the Kek Observatory on May 11.
These images support the idea that Jupiter is in the midst of climate change, as first proposed in 2004 by Phil Marcus, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Surface temperatures vary by 10-15 degrees Celsius. The gas giant becomes hotter near the equator and colder near the South Pole. He predicts that the major changes in the southern hemisphere around 2006 will cause the jet streams to become unstable and spawn new eddies.
"The appearance of the cloud band system from a little north of the equator to the 34 south latitude continues to surprise us with its changes and especially the new cloud formations that we have not seen so far." says Marcus. "Whether Jupiter's climate has changed due to the observed warming or not, the cloud activity over the past two and a half years suggests that something dramatic and unusual has occurred."
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By the way, Michael, it's good that you came back to us.
Did you enjoy Iceland? I would certainly enjoy…
Michael, I'm pretty sure there are people who think so (unfortunately).
Among them, just ego centers of various kinds, and besides; Those who simply misunderstood quantum mechanics and seek to combine these wonderful scientific ideas with pseudo-science in order to…
I don't know for what purpose exactly, maybe in order to make them "good for the heart", or to allow them to live a "spiritual life".
Anyway, it's disturbing, and it's a shame, but there will always be some (at least I think so).
But surely in the end it will turn out that this was a rhetorical question or that you intended to ask Ben-Ner in order to answer him in a certain way, and simply because of the time and the fatigue that rested on me (as a result of the many rehearsals I went through as part of the closing party) I am responding in this way.
It's time for me to go to sleep.
Shabbat Shalom.
Perhaps because the local conditions encourage such storms in a unique way.
That's probably a simpler explanation than what you were going to offer.
And by the way, you didn't finish things in the article about "new clues to the evolution of vertebrates..."
Shabbat Shalom.
Michael Shal Gur probably thinks like that...
And now to a more interesting matter. What is the explanation, if there is one, that the storms that we see as spots, form in this specific place both in terms of the latitude of the star and in terms of the physical proximity between the spots?
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What nonsense?
Someone makes a joke and everyone makes a stew out of it!
A. Ben-Ner: Do you think there is anyone in the world who thinks that everything that happens in the universe is the result of human actions?
Dear Friends. Do not underestimate the response of "Y" (the first).
It is not entirely far-fetched that the study of planetary atmospheres will be able in the future
To point out identical trends, for example: warming-cooling, atmospheric storms, frequency of meteorite impacts, etc., which can be compared to the findings from the DHA and draw important conclusions from it. For example, we read here just a few days ago about the theory of the harmonic oscillation of the solar system on both sides of the central plane of the galaxy and its effect on the incidence of meteorite strikes. And I have also heard the theory that links the climate to the past and the passage of the solar system in the wine
The arms of the galaxy. It turns out that there are still several phenomena in nature that are not the result of human influence.
what are you saying? Thanks for the explanation
2 But maybe there are rhinos there
1 In justice there are no humans
Perhaps the warming is rightly the fault of man?