I was out poking around in the sky last night and noticed a small spot on Jupiter I hadn't noticed before. The spot seemed a bit too small to be the GRS and looked like a dark point in my scope. Unfortunately, it didn't show up in the photograph but appeared where the arrow ends in this image...
I just moved to the DC area and took my scope out for the first time..this is the best Jupiter I've taken so far. I darkened it a little to see more detail and color.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1277734/Jupiter-loses-stripes-scientists-idea-why.html
Interesting little tidbit here..article says amateur spotted it..anyone else notice this? Either way, any ideas on what could cause Jupiter to lose a stripe?
I was under the assumption...
Maybe that is why is a theory and not a law? I'm sure no one here (or anywhere for that matter) is claiming to answer every question the universe gives us. We're always learning.
Obviously this is pure conjecture but considering the size of 24 Themis, wouldn't tidal forces alone be enough to create enough interior heat to sustain liquid water? (assuming it's orbit permitted this)
If not can we assume that a majority of rocks in the asteroid belt contain both water ice...
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/48174/title/Ice_confirmed_on_an_asteroid
Ice was discovered covering the entire surface of one of the largest asteroids in the asteroid belt. However, the most fascinating part to me is this:
"At the asteroid’s average distance from the sun — 3.2...
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These are clips from Stephen Hawking's new show on Discovery...more about time travel than space travel per se, but maybe you can relate it to the future? If all else fails, they are still fun to watch!
Could liquid methane, like on Titan, provide the same environment for a primordial soup like we believe started life on Earth? Or would lightning striking methane end horribly? :)
Just watching the live feed from the LHC and as if the black hole it was meant to create was speaking to us, it broke on queue. Seriously..is this thing not the biggest piece of junk ever invented? Obviously it is complicated beyond the scope of this forum..but with scientists studying it for...
Is there any way to prove it has been moving away at this exact speed for that long? 38 millimeters a year is barely anything, so wouldn't some of the millions of impacts along the surface influence its direction?
I suggest you look up the CBO report on the legislation that was passed, and they will put out another report on the amendments once they make their way through the Senate.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/126929/Slim-Margin-Americans-Support-Healthcare-Bill-Passage.aspx
Now that the fear mongering is over mostly, I predict popular support for this bill will swing substantially in favor of it.
Sorry I see why that could be confusing. Actually, I was using Earth as a reference in that life on a planet would evolve according to the planets rotation, such as being active during the day and sleeping at night or vice-versa. So if planet had a dramatically different rotational period...