Early this morning, local time, two amateur astronomers independently captured images of something colliding with Jupiter.
Anthony Wesley (
cache) in Broken Hill, Australia noticed it first. Wesley spread the word and
Christopher Go (
cache) in Cebu City, Philippines also found that he'd documented the event, which occurred at 20:31 June 3, Universal Time.
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posted by Songdog
on Jun 4, 2010 -
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Will a lava lamp work on Jupiter? Neil Fraser decided to test it.
"To find out how lava lamps behave in super-terrestrial gravity, I built a large centrifuge in my living room. ...it was a rich learning experience as I encountered one metal-shredding and wire-melting failure after another."
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posted by odinsdream
on Mar 7, 2010 -
37 comments
The Lucifer Project. "This is a documentation and study of the feasibility of creating a sustainable fusion reaction from an initial fission reaction on Saturn caused by a significant quantity of Plutonium-238 being inserted deep into the atmosphere."
[via: del.icio.us/blackbeltjones]
posted by gsb
on Nov 21, 2005 -
33 comments
Saturn's enigmatic moon
Titan holds on to its mysteries.
Radar images reveal quite a bit of variation but no clear interpretation. The hazy atmosphere prevents the sudden shock of discovery that characterized the Voyager and Galileo flybys of the moons of Jupiter, revealing little more than
fuzzy Rorschach blobs. With less than 1% of the surface mapped, researchers suspect that Titan has a
young surface shaped by processes that have yet to be revealed.
posted by KirkJobSluder
on Nov 5, 2004 -
5 comments
Wouldn't it be great if you could get the weather from a poorly synthesized computer-generated voice? Well, now you can. Call 1-888-573-8255 and ask
Jupiter what the weather is like, or will be like, for nearly any city you want. (via
Cool Tools)
posted by euphorb
on Jul 19, 2004 -
12 comments
NASA's Official 'Galileo Dies' Page. Galileo is set to crash into Jupiter on Sunday. Responsible for many great
images and tons of information, Galileo served well. Find a complete history of the Galileo mission
here. Also, don't forget to watch the End of Mission webcast this Sunday at approx. 2 PM EST
here.
posted by Ufez Jones
on Sep 16, 2003 -
7 comments
Swan song for a great explorer. Tomorow, the Galileo explorer will make a flyby of Jovian moon
Amalthea ending pehaps the geatest unmanned mission in NASA history. Galileo telemetry may not survive the flyby having already receieved much more radiation than it was designed for. Even if it does survive, this will be its final orbit scheduled to crash into Jupiter in September of next year. In spite of antenna difficulties, the spacecraft returned
many beautiful images of Jupiter's moons, along with coverage of the
Shoemaker-Levy collision and the first atmospheric probe to decend into Jupiter's weather.
posted by KirkJobSluder
on Nov 3, 2002 -
9 comments
Puzzling X-rays from Jupiter "We weren't surprised to find x-rays coming from Jupiter." Other observatories had done that years ago. The surprise is what Chandra has revealed for the very first time: the location of the beacon -- surprisingly close the planet's pole -- and the regular way it pulses.
(Via Fark.)
posted by Mwongozi
on Mar 7, 2002 -
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