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Diffusion Caused Jupiter's Red Spot Junior To Color Up
September 22, 2008 A study has given new insights into why Oval BA, a giant anticyclone on Jupiter also known as Red Spot Junior, suddenly turned from white to red in a period of just a few ... > full story -
Partial Lunar Eclipse On 16th August
August 11, 2008 People across the world will have the chance to see a partial eclipse of the Moon on the 16th ... > full story -
Is There Life On Jupiter's Moon Europa? Finding Signs Of Current Geological Activity On A Frozen World
August 6, 2008 With average temperatures of minus 260 degrees Fahrenheit, an almost nonexistent atmosphere and a complex web of cracks in a layer of ice encompassing the entire surface, the environment on Jupiter's ... > full story -
Jupiter And Saturn Full Of Liquid Metal Helium
August 6, 2008 A strange metal brew lies buried deep within giant gaseous planets such as Jupiter and Saturn. A new study demonstrates that metallic helium is less rare than was previously thought, and is produced ... > full story -
Three Red Spots Mix It Up On Jupiter
July 17, 2008 A new sequence of Hubble Space Telescope images offers an unprecedented view of a planetary game of Pac-Man among three red spots clustered together in Jupiter's atmosphere. The images were taken by ... > full story -
Voyager Squashes View Of Solar System
July 3, 2008 Scientists using data from NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft have observed the bubble of solar wind surrounding the solar system is not round, but has a squashed shape, according to recent data published ... > full story -
Saturn’s Secondary Aurora Is Much More Like Jupiter’s In Origin Than It Is The Earth’s
June 19, 2008 Researchers have discovered a secondary aurora sparkling on Saturn and also started to unravel the mechanisms that drive the process. Their results show that Saturn's secondary aurora is much more ... > full story -
Jupiter: Turbulent Storms May Be Sign Of Global Climate Change
May 22, 2008 The first images of Jupiter since it came out from behind the sun show that the turbulence and storms that have plagued the planet for the past two years continue. Whether or not this is a sign of ... > full story -
Storm Winds Blow In Jupiter's Little Red Spot
May 21, 2008 Astronomers have found that one of the solar system's largest and newest storms -- Jupiter's Little Red Spot -- has some of the highest wind speeds ever detected on any planet. This is the first time ... > full story -
Wandering Poles Left Scars On Jupiter's Moon Europa: Could Life Exist Beneath Icy Crust?
May 14, 2008 Curved features on Jupiter's moon Europa may indicate that its poles have wandered by almost 90 degrees, report scientists. Such an extreme shift suggests the existence of an internal liquid ocean ... > full story
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