Posted on 10/24/2015 12:04:32 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Explanation: Two remarkable global maps of Jupiter's banded cloud tops can be compared by just sliding your cursor over this sharp projection (or follow this link) of image data from the Hubble Space Telescope. Both captured on January 19, during back-to-back 10 hour rotations of the ruling gas giant, the all-planet projections represent the first in a series of planned annual portraits by the Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy program. Comparing the two highlights cloud movements and measures wind speeds in the planet's dynamic atmosphere. In fact, the Great Red Spot, the famous long-lived swirling storm boasting 300 mile per hour winds, is seen sporting a rotating, twisting filament. The images confirm that Great Red Spot is still shrinking, though still larger than planet Earth. Posing next to it (lower right) is Oval BA, also known as Red Spot Junior.
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[Credit: NASA, ESA, Amy Simon (GSFC), Michael Wong (UC Berkeley), Glenn Orton (JPL-Caltech)]
I’m going to crochet a scarf in those very colors and pattern. A big button where The Huge Spot is. How cool will THAT be?
Inspired. :)
The Juno craft is due to arrive at Jupiter in July I believe.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/juno/main/index.html
Oh, so THAT’S where Cher is going when Trump gets elected :)
It sounds nerdy, and I want one! ;-)
I just read the book, ‘Knit The Sky’ and it has all sorts of ideas for choosing your color pallet and designing projects based on Nature.
Based upon those cool colors, I am now extending my pallet into Space. :)
I think it sounds very cool. Seems like the sort of thing one could sell in Etsy if you were so inclined.
As if she'd know one way or the other. :') Years ago, one of the checkstand tabloids had a piece about some memoir of Sonny Bono -- claimed that Cher thought the Moon was just the way the Sun looks at night.
*That* is a great idea! Here in Grand Rapids, this year’s winner of the big prize in ArtPrize won for a quilt — and she’s the first two-time winner.
That’s perfect!
I’m sure Sunken Civ is happy where this thread went, LOL!
Sorry! :)
Oh, Good! I thought you’d be made about the hijacking, LOL!
Yarn not gonna get away with that thread hijacking. /rimshot
I would love to see that scarf too.
Farmers almanac says it’s going to be a very cold winter. If it turns out nice, I’d pay for one,
Thanks!
http://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/
http://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/origin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juno_(spacecraft)#Timeline
Back to the thread- I heard some scientist from Nasa interviewed and he thinks in the next 200 years the Great Red Spot will be gone.
I can’t recall who it was, but it was a show on TV about Jupiter and Saturn.
The Great Spray and Wash will probably be the reason.
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