Comments on: Methanic Jupiter http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/14/methanic-jupiter/ I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:30:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Mixed Nuts » Blog Archive » New pictures of Jupiter http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/14/methanic-jupiter/comment-page-1/#comment-45817 Mixed Nuts » Blog Archive » New pictures of Jupiter Thu, 16 Aug 2007 23:56:17 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/14/methanic-jupiter/#comment-45817 [...] my favorite planet. This is from from the Bad Astronomy Blog and was taken by the New Horizons mission to [...] [...] my favorite planet. This is from from the Bad Astronomy Blog and was taken by the New Horizons mission to [...]

]]> By: Lurchgs http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/14/methanic-jupiter/comment-page-1/#comment-45816 Lurchgs Thu, 16 Aug 2007 17:30:05 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/14/methanic-jupiter/#comment-45816 darnit - all these years I've been spelling it messianic. darnit – all these years I’ve been spelling it messianic.

]]> By: DCB http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/14/methanic-jupiter/comment-page-1/#comment-45809 DCB Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:16:25 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/14/methanic-jupiter/#comment-45809 I receive this blog usually via e-mail. Both Classmates.com and netflix put their ads right across the place where you click to go to the next post so if I read comments then I have to either make a comment or close out and come back in to go to the next post. This has been happening for a week or so and I've commented about it before. It is extremely frustrating. I hope it can be fixed....... D. I receive this blog usually via e-mail. Both Classmates.com and netflix put their ads right across the place where you click to go to the next post so if I read comments then I have to either make a comment or close out and come back in to go to the next post. This has been happening for a week or so and I’ve commented about it before. It is extremely frustrating. I hope it can be fixed……. D.

]]> By: Tom http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/14/methanic-jupiter/comment-page-1/#comment-45810 Tom Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:07:27 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/14/methanic-jupiter/#comment-45810 Cool! Tip it 90 degrees and it makes pretty swell dual monitor wallpaper for my Ubuntu machine. :) Tom Cool!
Tip it 90 degrees and it makes pretty swell dual monitor wallpaper for my Ubuntu machine. :)

Tom

]]> By: Gary Ansorge http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/14/methanic-jupiter/comment-page-1/#comment-45815 Gary Ansorge Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:55:02 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/14/methanic-jupiter/#comment-45815 Yummy methane. Just what we need to run our dirty little civilization,,,into the ground. I wonder when Standard Oil will seek gov. funding to go and retrieve some??? GAry 7 From Stephen Webbs book(Where is Everybody) I note that Jupiter, in its particular location and mass, seems to be essential for the formation of rocky bodies with H2O that exist within the suns life zone. Maybe we should be worshiping it???(snicker) Yummy methane. Just what we need to run our dirty little civilization,,,into the ground. I wonder when Standard Oil will seek gov. funding to go and retrieve some???

GAry 7

From Stephen Webbs book(Where is Everybody) I note that Jupiter, in its particular location and mass, seems to be essential for the formation of rocky bodies with H2O that exist within the suns life zone. Maybe we should be worshiping it???(snicker)

]]> By: Darth Robo http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/14/methanic-jupiter/comment-page-1/#comment-45814 Darth Robo Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:24:43 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/14/methanic-jupiter/#comment-45814 "An arbitrary number of Earths could of course fit across the image, as long as you put them far enough away." But anything more than five Earths would be behind Jupiter and we couldn't see 'em. ;-) Very cool pic. Be better in colour, though, but I guess that would miss the point. :-D “An arbitrary number of Earths could of course fit across the image, as long as you put them far enough away.”

But anything more than five Earths would be behind Jupiter and we couldn’t see ‘em.
;-)

Very cool pic. Be better in colour, though, but I guess that would miss the point.
:-D

]]> By: erlando http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/14/methanic-jupiter/comment-page-1/#comment-45813 erlando Wed, 15 Aug 2007 07:49:20 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/14/methanic-jupiter/#comment-45813 Absolutely stunning! I like the fractal-like patterns around the equator. Absolutely stunning! I like the fractal-like patterns around the equator.

]]> By: Christopher Ferro http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/14/methanic-jupiter/comment-page-1/#comment-45812 Christopher Ferro Wed, 15 Aug 2007 07:04:39 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/14/methanic-jupiter/#comment-45812 It took me a while to visualize this right. Normally, in image analysis brighter values = more and darker = less. Since it's a methane absorption image, I guess it makes sense, but my brain keeps wanting to reverse it. CJSF It took me a while to visualize this right. Normally, in image analysis brighter values = more and darker = less. Since it’s a methane absorption image, I guess it makes sense, but my brain keeps wanting to reverse it.

CJSF

]]> By: Ahruman http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/14/methanic-jupiter/comment-page-1/#comment-45811 Ahruman Wed, 15 Aug 2007 06:37:43 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/14/methanic-jupiter/#comment-45811 <i>“And in case you’re curious: fully 5 Earths could fit across this image from the left hand part of Jupiter to the day/night dividing line on the right.”</i> An arbitrary number of Earths could of course fit across the image, as long as you put them far enough away. Sorry, I’ve got this thing about wooly thinking. “And in case you’re curious: fully 5 Earths could fit across this image from the left hand part of Jupiter to the day/night dividing line on the right.”
An arbitrary number of Earths could of course fit across the image, as long as you put them far enough away.

Sorry, I’ve got this thing about wooly thinking.

]]> By: autumn http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/14/methanic-jupiter/comment-page-1/#comment-45808 autumn Wed, 15 Aug 2007 04:27:54 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/14/methanic-jupiter/#comment-45808 Emily's site is amazing in the wealth of information, as well as wealth of wonder, it produces. The Jovian system is just awesome. Emily’s site is amazing in the wealth of information, as well as wealth of wonder, it produces. The Jovian system is just awesome.

]]> By: wright http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/14/methanic-jupiter/comment-page-1/#comment-45807 wright Wed, 15 Aug 2007 02:26:07 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/14/methanic-jupiter/#comment-45807 Ahh, Jupiter... Seeing photo images of any of the planets, especially our system's magnificent gas giants, never fails to make me smile. Such beauty, such wonder. Ahh, Jupiter… Seeing photo images of any of the planets, especially our system’s magnificent gas giants, never fails to make me smile. Such beauty, such wonder.

]]> By: Harold http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/14/methanic-jupiter/comment-page-1/#comment-45806 Harold Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:03:02 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/14/methanic-jupiter/#comment-45806 There is so musch to love about that picture. Though every once in a while when I'm looking at pictures of Jupiter, I get the feeling that somebody was a little heavy-handed with the Photoshop "clone" tool whith the whorls while moving horizontally along the latitude bands, or with the white spots vertically in the mid-Southern latitudes! There is so musch to love about that picture.

Though every once in a while when I’m looking at pictures of Jupiter, I get the feeling that somebody was a little heavy-handed with the Photoshop “clone” tool whith the whorls while moving horizontally along the latitude bands, or with the white spots vertically in the mid-Southern latitudes!

]]> By: Steve Ziolkowski http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/14/methanic-jupiter/comment-page-1/#comment-45805 Steve Ziolkowski Wed, 15 Aug 2007 00:22:28 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/14/methanic-jupiter/#comment-45805 It has to be fake. Where are the stars? (Just kidding...) It has to be fake. Where are the stars?

(Just kidding…)

]]> By: Michael http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/14/methanic-jupiter/comment-page-1/#comment-45804 Michael Tue, 14 Aug 2007 22:04:21 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/14/methanic-jupiter/#comment-45804 Wow, that's really round. Wow, that’s really round.

]]> By: John Paradox http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/14/methanic-jupiter/comment-page-1/#comment-45803 John Paradox Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:02:28 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/14/methanic-jupiter/#comment-45803 <i>Is there any speculation about the source of the methane “spots” between the bands in the northern and southern hemisphere?</i> Cow farts? J/P=? Is there any speculation about the source of the methane “spots” between the bands in the northern and southern hemisphere?

Cow farts?

J/P=?

]]> By: UmTutSut (Sure, why not?) http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/14/methanic-jupiter/comment-page-1/#comment-45802 UmTutSut (Sure, why not?) Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:01:38 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/14/methanic-jupiter/#comment-45802 Rather off-topic :one of the Google ads that showed up next to the article on the BA blog when I pulled it up was: These Love Spells Work links to honest spell workers that get fast results love-spells-magic.com Rather incongruous on this blog, no? (:-} And on-topic: Is there any speculation about the source of the methane "spots" between the bands in the northern and southern hemisphere? Les (Friendly Airplane Asylum flack) Rather off-topic :o ne of the Google ads that showed up next to the article on the BA blog when I pulled it up was:

These Love Spells Work
links to honest spell workers that get fast results
love-spells-magic.com

Rather incongruous on this blog, no? (:-}

And on-topic: Is there any speculation about the source of the methane “spots” between the bands in the northern and southern hemisphere?

Les (Friendly Airplane Asylum flack)

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