NASA Update on Jupiter

[The Doctor]

NASA Science News for March 12, 2003 :nod:

For more than a century, astronomers thought the Great Red Spot was the biggest thing on Jupiter. But cameras onboard the Cassini spacecraft have revealed something at least as large: a dark cloud twice the size of Earthswirling around Jupiter's north pole.

FULL STORY at

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/12mar_darkspot.htm?list582445



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[Shookums]

Very cool. Thanks for posting that tidbit Doc!!

[Gservo]

Nifty, i wonder who lives there ??? Imagine, if you will (ok i know this may sound insane) imagine if jupiter has planets hiding in the gas, and the spots(red and black) were the results of their gravitational pull on the gases surrounding it. Those spots are twice the size of earth

Man i need coffee:morning:

[The Doctor]

That would be my X2B [spouse]... not planets :roflmao: :dunno:

[Dewill]

Cool pics Doc, look's like they got a lil polution prob there,
still burning solid fuel maybe, or maybe they should change to lead free petrol (gas) :p

Could just be some one having a BBQ an burning the chicken :p




Jed ;)

[The Doctor]

I used to think that it was cool,

running around on fossil fuel...

until one day, I saw what I was doin'

`drivin down that road to ruin....

damn this traffic jam, 'hurts my motor to go so slow

damn this traffic jam.... :spot: