Comments on: Hubble Spies Third Red Spot on Jupiter

By: Al Hall

Al Hall — Fri, 30 May 2008 04:38:56 +0000

Elias –

Don't you read the news?? It is obvious…. We are the cause of the accelerated climate change… There couldn't be another explanation.
Don't we have a satellite hanging around there now? .. That must be it.. That must be the cause. We can't have accelerated climate change without human intervention, right?

By: Sili

Sili — Wed, 28 May 2008 13:49:34 +0000

Marcellus,

Try plugging the numbers into the Stefan-Boltzmann equation.

I'm pretty sure that if increased output from the Sun were to increase the temperature by 10K all the way out in Jupiter's orbit, we'd have something like 25 times that increase here on earth.

So how do you explain that we're not all on fire, if Terran warming isn't anthropgenic?

By: marcellus

marcellus — Mon, 26 May 2008 04:30:46 +0000

August should be pretty interesting. Jupiter will be high in the sky in early evening, a great time to check out the possible merger of the two spots, if it happens.

Another dagger in the false claims of global warming caused by human activity.

By: Elias

Elias — Sat, 24 May 2008 09:39:56 +0000

Why Jupiter is going through that major climate change? Is there a particular reason?

By: bellinda birdleg

bellinda birdleg — Fri, 23 May 2008 11:50:35 +0000

Thanks Nancy, very interesting article.

Couldnt you make it a bit more scary ?
Like doomsday when the new red dot meets the big one in August ?

Ask Ian he knows how to sparkle.

By: sharuk

sharuk — Fri, 23 May 2008 06:36:50 +0000

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By: Astrofiend

Astrofiend — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:38:08 +0000

"These images may support the idea that Jupiter is in the midst of global climate change, as first proposed in 2004 by Phil Marcus, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley."

Top job so far, Mr. Marcus! Let's see if it bears out…

By: will day

will day — Thu, 22 May 2008 22:57:11 +0000

global warming on jupiter???
how did we do that??
gosh darn suv's are screwing up the whole solar system now!!!
can we do "cap and trade" with the jovians??
i bet algore can whip us up a few carbon credits.
this just cannot happen- the sun doesnot /cannot/willnot cause global warming-
but the pictures are pretty cool

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:39:16 +0000

Oops! Two minor corrections to my above comment:
1: The "15 to 20F is 7.22 to 10C" refers to a temperature increase.
2: By surface temperature I of course mean approx. cloud top temperature.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:36:44 +0000

Argh! Metric too, please.

15 to 20F is 7.22 to 10C

Jupiter's Surface temperature is supposedly about -150C, which is -240F, so the hypothesized increase of 15-20F equates to -225F to -220F. Back in metric this equates to -142.78C to -140C, or an increase of 7.22 to 10.0 degrees C.
(I did the conversions this way as F/C conversion scales are not linear, so converting 15-20F into X-YC didn't work)

By: John Mendenhall

John Mendenhall — Thu, 22 May 2008 19:29:53 +0000

Another beautiful image from the Hubble team! Keep up the good work!

By: Daniel Fischer

Daniel Fischer — Thu, 22 May 2008 18:31:28 +0000

The trio of storms is already clearly visible in this amateur Jupiter movie from late April shot with a methane filter.

By: RapidEye

RapidEye — Thu, 22 May 2008 17:33:06 +0000

I'm certain that by the end of the week, someone on the Cloudy Nights forum will have claimed to have seen it in their 6×30 finderscope! =-P

I'm curious if I'll be able to spot it in my 10" Dob. Jupiter is pretty far south this year, so I'm not holding out too much hope, but it won't stop me from trying!