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Space Weather: Explosions on Venus
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| March 5, 2012
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Posted on 03/18/2012 7:54:56 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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When discontinuities in the solar wind remain in contact with a planet's bow shock, they can collect a pool of hot particles that becomes a hot flow anomaly (HFA). An HFA on Venus most likely acts like a vacuum, pulling up parts of the planetâs atmosphere. Credit: NASA/Collinson
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posted on
03/18/2012 7:55:04 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; Rurudyne; steelyourfaith; Tolerance Sucks Rocks; xcamel
Maybe a climate ping, dunno.
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posted on
03/18/2012 7:56:23 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him)
To: KevinDavis; annie laurie; Knitting A Conundrum; Viking2002; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Mmogamer; ...
Something that may be detectable in extrasolar contexts? Someday?
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03/18/2012 7:57:24 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him)
To: 75thOVI; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; ...
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posted on
03/18/2012 7:57:31 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him)
To: NicknamedBob
I assume you have this contingency covered ...
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posted on
03/18/2012 7:58:45 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(I'm trying to avoid sarcasm, but darn it, life is absurd!)
To: SunkenCiv
Good thing there was an extra day in February this year.
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posted on
03/18/2012 8:09:48 AM PDT
by
ILS21R
(I know you know I know)
To: SunkenCiv
Why isn't the solar wind coming from the same direction as the sunlight?!
ML/NJ
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posted on
03/18/2012 8:28:27 AM PDT
by
ml/nj
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
03/18/2012 8:38:49 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas gerit ;-{)
To: SunkenCiv
Moderator! Moderator! SunkenCiv is posting dirty space pictures again!
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posted on
03/18/2012 8:51:49 AM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: Tax-chick; SunkenCiv
"I assume you have this contingency covered ..." Wow! That's rather evocative.
And here I've been thinking of Venus as feminine.
Anyway, I suspect this doesn't do very much to the conditions at fifty kilometers altitude, where the settlements will be. (Cloud-cities, if you will. R Buckminster Fuller will be so proud.)
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posted on
03/18/2012 9:03:16 AM PDT
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NicknamedBob
(If "everybody's different" then two of them have to be the same. It's the only way to be different.)
To: SunkenCiv
Not to be too much of a stickler and I know you didn't generate the graphic but shouldn't the lit side of Venus be facing the solar wind instead of being 90° off?
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
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posted on
03/18/2012 9:14:43 AM PDT
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LonePalm
(Commander and Chef)
To: SunkenCiv; Tax-chick
"Maybe a climate ping, dunno.".
Climate on Earth depends on latitude.
Climate on Venus depends on altitude.
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Behold the power of transposed letters!
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posted on
03/18/2012 9:28:32 AM PDT
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NicknamedBob
(If "everybody's different" then two of them have to be the same. It's the only way to be different.)
To: NicknamedBob
Climate on Earth depends on latitude. Climate on Venus depends on altitude.
Climate on FR depends on attitude.
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posted on
03/18/2012 10:20:11 AM PDT
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wittyone
(Cogito cogito, ergo cogito sum.)
To: wittyone; Tax-chick
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posted on
03/18/2012 10:28:39 AM PDT
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NicknamedBob
(If "everybody's different" then two of them have to be the same. It's the only way to be different.)
To: NicknamedBob
Cute poem. Stock rotation indeed...
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posted on
03/18/2012 11:49:00 AM PDT
by
wittyone
(Cogito cogito, ergo cogito sum.)
To: ml/nj; LonePalm
The pic should be of Venus’ pole (either one), but clearly they weren’t too worried about it. :’)
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posted on
03/18/2012 12:08:31 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him)
To: NicknamedBob; wittyone
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posted on
03/18/2012 12:08:47 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him)
To: blueunicorn6
All I have to do is whisper “hot flow anomaly” and the girls swoon.
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posted on
03/18/2012 12:09:44 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
03/18/2012 12:10:11 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him)
To: SunkenCiv
The pic should be of Venus pole (either one), but clearly they werent too worried about it. Our government at work!
People here who think NASA is any different from any other agency of incompetents should pay attention.
ML/NJ
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03/18/2012 1:03:21 PM PDT
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ml/nj
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