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Hubble spots dark spot on Uranus (picture)
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| 10/4/06
Posted on 10/06/2006 4:36:43 PM PDT by Mr. Brightside
Hubble spots dark spot on Uranus
Updated Wed. Oct. 4 2006 4:27 PM ET
Brian Jackson , DiscoveryChannel.ca
The recently-troubled Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a giant swirling, dark vortex on Uranus.
Peering 3.2 billion km into space, Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys snapped the photos on August 23. The dark spot indicates a massive storm on the alien planet's surface that is large enough to engulf two-thirds of the United States.
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers report the spot measures 1,700 km by 3,000 km. The image is a composite of three cameras that comprise Hubble's main viewing device.
Hubble trouble
Since taking the image, Hubble's primary camera has experienced technical difficulties.
The three-channel camera shut down after losing power on Sept. 23. Since then, one of the three channels have been restored.
Telescope managers redirected power to get the Wide Field Channel to work again.
Power is unable to reach the other two channels. NASA is not sure why.
TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: astronomy; moonsofuranus; ringarounduranus; uranus
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The dark spot on Uranus is visible in this
magnification of the vortex area. (Photo: NASA)
To: Mr. Brightside
Better call a proctologist quick. It could be malignant malenoma.
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posted on
10/06/2006 4:37:24 PM PDT
by
MAD-AS-HELL
(How to win over terrorist? KILL them with UNKINDNESS.)
To: Mr. Brightside
Vortex area of Uranus?
Too. Many. Jokes. Mind. Melting.
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posted on
10/06/2006 4:38:08 PM PDT
by
Petronski
(Living His life abundantly.)
To: MAD-AS-HELL
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posted on
10/06/2006 4:38:16 PM PDT
by
MrNationalist
(Who Dares Wins)
To: Mr. Brightside
Who's Anus,not mine,I'll tell you that......
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posted on
10/06/2006 4:38:17 PM PDT
by
cmsgop
( President Mahmud Ahmadinejad Must Purify Himself in The Waters of Lake Minnetonka)
To: Mr. Brightside
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posted on
10/06/2006 4:38:47 PM PDT
by
null and void
("It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret."--Jackie Joyner-Kersee)
To: Mr. Brightside
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posted on
10/06/2006 4:38:53 PM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(Every single day provides at least one new reason to hate the mainstream media...)
To: MAD-AS-HELL
It didn't wipe well enough.
To: Mr. Brightside
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posted on
10/06/2006 4:39:17 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
("The entire remedy is with the people." - W. H. Harrison)
To: MAD-AS-HELL
I thought they were so tired of the jokes they renamed it Urectum.
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posted on
10/06/2006 4:39:21 PM PDT
by
Petronski
(Living His life abundantly.)
To: MAD-AS-HELL
.....I wonder what Civil Rights struggles remain? ....
Nothing so exotic. It is just an ordinary hemorrhoid
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posted on
10/06/2006 4:39:21 PM PDT
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. Foley is why we don't allow queers to be Scoutmasters.)
To: Mr. Brightside
Uranus is, after all, a gas giant.
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posted on
10/06/2006 4:39:47 PM PDT
by
SlowBoat407
(I've had it with these &%#@* jihadis on these &%#@* planes!)
To: Mr. Brightside
Oh, boy. I can't wait for the puerile ass humor. That stuff never gets old.
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posted on
10/06/2006 4:40:05 PM PDT
by
Doohickey
(I am not unappeasable. YOU are just too easily appeased.)
To: Mr. Brightside
"... dark spots on Uranus ..."
Euuuuuuuu ....
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posted on
10/06/2006 4:40:26 PM PDT
by
Ken522
To: Petronski
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posted on
10/06/2006 4:40:29 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
("The entire remedy is with the people." - W. H. Harrison)
To: Slings and Arrows
Hubble spots dark spot on Uranusthis is not a ping. no comment.
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posted on
10/06/2006 4:41:24 PM PDT
by
glock rocks
( What does a Marine sniper feel when he shoots a terrorist? ... Recoil.)
To: Xenalyte; rzeznikj at stout
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posted on
10/06/2006 4:42:06 PM PDT
by
null and void
("It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret."--Jackie Joyner-Kersee)
To: Mr. Brightside
SUVs, global warming. Clearly.
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posted on
10/06/2006 4:42:30 PM PDT
by
Jaysun
(Idiot Muslims. They're just dying to have sex orgies.)
To: Mr. Brightside
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posted on
10/06/2006 4:42:48 PM PDT
by
Scarchin
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To: BenLurkin
I never tire of that joke. < /MIB>
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posted on
10/06/2006 4:43:01 PM PDT
by
null and void
("It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret."--Jackie Joyner-Kersee)
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