Posted on 10/10/2007 11:09:55 AM PDT by docbnj
mages sent back from New Horizons earlier this year show stormy features similar to Earth's, including lightning on both of Jupiter's poles.
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RELATED Virtual Solar System Photo in the News: Jupiter Spawns a New Red Spot (March 7, 2006) NASA Probe Heads to Pluto (January 19, 2006) The images suggest the storms are caused by the heat from the planet itself, rather than the sun, and are maintained by circulation patterns that could be global in scale.
Perhaps even more important, Jupiter's weather appears to be different than it was when NASA probes last visited the gas giant, experts say.
"Jupiter has changed," said Dennis Reuter of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
"There's been a whole environmental change on this massive planet since Voyager and Galileo were there [in 1979 and 2003, respectively]."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalgeographic.com ...
Things are so bad on Jupiter, that there seem to be no penguins or polar bears there at all. Let that be a warning, fellow Earthlings!
The weather is different than it was four years ago.
Wow, the weather in my back yard is different than it was four years ago!
Is there an award for asininity?
I nominate these "experts", or maybe the reporter who quoted them.
Unless the climate change was caused by 73,261 black monoliths with an aspect ration of 1:4:9 then it’s not remotely artificial.
So where does this leave Al Gore?
OK!!! Who is driving all those nasty SUVs on that planet? This cannot stand. Do these folks have proper carbon offsets? Did they get permission from ALGORE to drive there?
I know, I know NASA caused it!
Well sombody had to say it
This will do nothing so much as encourage RCH.
Someone suggested that if we can ever perfect long carbon nanotube cable of the type they want to use for a space elevator, a probe could go into orbit around Jupiter and “fish”, by dangling a smaller probe into its atmosphere.
The ‘lure’ probe would send data up the cable to the orbital probe, which could them broadcast with much more ease than from the Jovian atmosphere itself.
Hey! Stop putting all the blame on SUVs! What about all those Suburbans and Hummers out there in the solar system?!
BTW, this begs the question: does Algoracle have a mansion on Jupiter too?
Planets without people have climate change!
whoda thunk it!
"Jove, You Magnificent Bastard!"
No, just a tobacco farm though.
Bush's fault.
Is there an award for asininity?
Yes, it is called the Nobel peace prize
Most of the last few years prizes have gone to people
for reasons that defy common sence
I see nothing in the article that talks about climate change on Jupiter. Nothing. It talks about weather change—not climate change. And it says zilch about planetary warming.
Why did you change the title of this article and spam this article into climatechange and globalwarming keywords?
Actually, belay my last. I missed the second page.
AGW™ ping
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