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NASA scientists struggle to understand signs of massive climate shift on Jupiter as giant planet is bombarded with cometary debris
Sunday, October 21, 2012 7:50
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Jupiter, the mythical god of sky and thunder, would certainly be pleased at all the changes afoot at his namesake planet. As the planet gets peppered continually with small space rocks, wide belts of the atmosphere are changing color, hotspots are vanishing and reappearing, and clouds are gathering over one part of Jupiter, while dissipating over another. The results were presented today by Glenn Orton, a senior research scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., at the American Astronomical Society’s Division for Planetary Sciences Meeting in Reno, Nev …. http://www.sott.net
2012-10-21 07:40:20
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