Is Jupiter Losing Its Spots?

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Jupiter is experiencing significant climate change, leading to the potential loss of its large spots over the next seven years, as proposed by Philip Marcus, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His computer modeling, detailed in the April 22 issue of the journal Nature, explains the historical disappearance of these spots and predicts the emergence of new ones in a cyclical pattern. This hypothesis is deemed testable using large backyard telescopes, making it accessible for further verification by the scientific community.

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Jupiter is undergoing major climate change and could lose many of its large spots over the next seven years, only to make way for the creation of fresh spots in a decades-long cycle, according to a new explanation of old mysteries.

While the analysis remains to be proven, it is seen by other researchers as interesting and, importantly, testable even with large backyard telescopes.

Philip Marcus, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley who came up with the idea is an expert in fluid and atmospheric dynamics. He has never seen Jupiter through a telescope. But his computer modeling, reported in the April 22 issue of the journal Nature, accounts for previously noted disappearances of large white spots, and it makes predictions that can easily be verified or refuted. [continued]

http://space.com/scienceastronomy/jupiter_spots_040421.html
 
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AFAIK, Jupiter did not sign the Kyoto protocol, so we can expect it to undergo global l warming.:rolleyes:
 

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