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Jupiter's Turbulent GRS
10/9/2024
The Hubble Space Telescope focused on Jupiter's iconic Great Red Spot for the first three months of this year. The scientists found that the storm is jiggling like gelatin, squeezing in and out at the same time as it moves faster and slower. UV observations also demonstrated that the core is brightest when the spot is at its greatest size during the oscillations.
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Unraveling the Spiders on Mars
9/11/2024
No, it’s not a throwback to David Bowie – NASA has been studying “spiders” on Mars and scientists at JPL think they have a better understanding of how they form. Discovered in 2003 via images from orbiters and more formally termed “Araneiform Terrain”, they appear as spider-like clusters of dark lines in Mars’ southern hemisphere. Recent experiments support the hypothesis that they form as the ground under the carbon dioxide ice is warmed and sublimates the ice, eventually cracking it and spewing out the dark material.
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Check the Events Calendar
2024-10-10 18:55
First Quarter Moon
2024-10-12
Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) reaches perigee
2024-10-14
Mars at Western quadrature; large NPH should be visible
2024-10-14 18:00
Saturn 0.1° south of Moon, occultation South Africa to China
2024-10-16 21:08
Start of Carrington Rotation 2290
2024-10-17 11:26
Full Moon, largest of the year
2024-10-19 21:00
Moon 0.2° north of Pleiades
2024-10-21
Orionid meteor shower
2024-10-24 08:03
Last Quarter Moon
2024-11-01 12:47
New Moon (lunation 1260)