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

[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]

[FroggyTheGremlim]

Wow, that was unexpected.

[stilloftyhenight]

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

[FroggyTheGremlim]

An obelisk is a monolith, I think.

[Army Air Corps]

Was a monolith visible. :-)