Must be global warming on Jupitor


WASHINGTON — Jupiter has a new freckle – a third red spot much smaller than the well-known Great Red Spot and a newer one dubbed Red Spot Jr.



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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servl...y/Science/home

The heat for Jupiter's storms is generated internally. So perhaps there are hotspots or upwellings of heat, so that the heat does not reach the clouds uniformly?

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It's starting to look like a teenager having an outbreak of pimples!

"Increased turbulence and storms first observed on Jupiter more than two years ago are still raging, according to astronomers from the University of California, Berkeley, and the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, who snapped high-resolution pictures of the planet earlier this month."

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/arc...eases/2008/23/

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Red spot Jr.

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Sorry. Oops. I can see that now. Thought this was the astronomy forum.

(smacks forehead)

Can somebody pretty [please move this thread to the proper forum. Sorry.