Jupiter loses one of its stripes and scientists are stumped as to why

Mail Online ^ | May 12, 2010 | Claire Bates

[kennedy]

Jupiter has lost one of its iconic red stripes and scientists are baffled as to why.

The largest planet in our solar system is usually dominated by two dark bands in its atmosphere, with one in the northern hemisphere and one in the southern hemisphere.

However, the most recent images taken by amateur astronomers have revealed the lower stripe known as the Southern Equatorial Belt has disappeared leaving the southern half of the planet looking unusually bare.

The band was present in at the end of last year before Jupiter ducked behind the Sun on its orbit. However, when it emerged three months later the belt had disappeared.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1277734/Jupiter-loses-stripes-scientists-idea-why.html#ixzz0nlLRW5xQ

[kennedy]

Bush's fault.

[GeronL]

Jupiter has been demoted!

[Nekman]

Man Made Global Warming.....

[HerrBlucher]

Global Warming. We need communism now to put that stripe back on Jupiter.

[facedown]

[Vasilli22]

SUVs!!!

[EGPWS]

Man Made Global Warming.....

It's not just global any more.

Where is all the financing to pay for this evil human debacle that is tainting the milky way now?

[omega4179]

Only Government can fix this. Only Government can hold the people that did this accountable.

[eclecticEel]

NOOOWW, will we stop driving our SUV’s?

[JRios1968]

Rove’s weather machine!

[YHAOS]

Can’t depend on a thing!

[duckworth]

You wrote “We need communism now to put that stripe back on Jupiter.” I agree. The time for debate is over.

[x]

Falling asleep on duty?

Maybe Jupiter and Pluto were awol and each got demoted.

[Lurker]

I remember when I lost a stripe. It took me months to get it back. And no, I can’t tell how I lost it here, at least not while the sun is shining.

[MediaMole]

Maybe the band broke up when the lead singer decided to go solo.

[EGPWS]

NOOOWW, will we stop driving our SUV’s?

I'll do MY part and not drive on Jupiter anymore, damn strait!

[rlmorel]

We must have forgotten to pay some bill.

[pnh102]

Pluto stole it.

[El Sordo]

It must have been insubordinate.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“Jupiter has lost one of its iconic red stripes and scientists are baffled as to why.”

Well, this uneducated slack-jawed yokel will take a stab at it, Mr, Scientist!

Um, because SPACE is STILL forming, the planets have been CHANGING since ‘The Big Bang’ and our Universe (and beyond!) will continue to DO SO for the next million billion YEARS or so?

*Rolleyes*

[EGPWS]

Jupiter loses one of its stripes and scientists are stumped as to why

All part of the "change" we voted for.

[KevinDavis]

Uh oh... It could be one thing...



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[o_zarkman44]

Al Gore and his Jupiter Global warming task force saved Jupiter?

[EGPWS]

Like minds... ; )

[Jemian]

Rove, you magnificent ...

[Little Pig]

It would be a real kicker if whatever erased that stripe caused enough disruption to cause the Great Red Spot to die too.

[GeronL]

It’s the obelisk!

[bikerman]

Obama’s fault

[beethovenfan]

The red stripe can be found on Obummer’s back.

[Little Pig]

I assume you forgot the /s tag?

I believe the article means that scientists are stumped as to the specific process that could cause such a major weather feature to disappear in such a short time.

[Little Pig]

Did you mean “Monolith”?

[StormEye]

In order to help study and correct this problem the Obama Administration should create a blue ribbon commission of leading liberal/leftist Democrats, RINO’s and other assorted socialists. The Congress should appropriate 500 million dollars to pay for this commission. The commission will then recommend a federal tax increase to collect an extra 200 billion dollars per year to help fix this problem and continue to study ways to fix the problem.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

Aliens decided to have some fun and screw with the scientists on Earth.

[GeronL]

Monolith...obelisk... tomato... potatoe

[Wilum]

No, it’s Yellow.

[oyez]

[eCSMaster]

Wow, that was unexpected.

[stilloftyhenight]

Let me guess. The stripe supported Obamacare and they ran him out of office.

[eCSMaster]

An obelisk is a monolith, I think.

[Army Air Corps]

Was a monolith visible. :-)

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Well, I was being a LITTLE sarcastic. ;)

But seriously, you know this ‘change’ in Jupiter’s atmosphere is just going to mean more tax dollars out of our pockets in Goobermint grants to study something that has no rational explanation or meaning. It just is what it is.

And frankly, there ain’t a d@mn thing you or me or anyone else can do about what happens on Jupiter. We’ve hardly mastered the intricacies of THIS planet, LOL!

If those clouds disappeard after Jupiter’s latest trip around the sun, well...what do we do? Put on the brakes? ;)

(See my tagline, though...)

[beethovenfan]

They’re side by side.

[ColdOne]

It is the rotation. You are seeing the other side of the planet. It will return?

[dbrew2u]

That Bush & Cheney. Their such cards. You can put it back now boys.

[Cyman]

I saw Jupiter poking out behind Boomer and Mike Golic in a Nutrisystem commercial a couple of months ago.

[mapmaker77]

Just call the clowns at the ipcc, and they’ll make something up, and then send you a bill.

[Wonder Warthog]

Nah. Monoliths at work.

[Cheryllynn]

Dang he sure gets around (Bush) LOL

[tet68]

Fen-Fen, lost a belt size.

Too bad really, that stuff was the only thing I ever
lost weight with.

[afnamvet]

We need a Jupiter czar.