jupiters great big red spot

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Jupiter has a big spot located 22° south of Jupiter's equator . Its dimensions are 24–40,000 km west–to–east and 12–14,000 km south–to–north. The spot is large enough to contain two or three planets the size of Earth. we barely know much about Jupiter yet alone its big red spot but astronomers have recently discovered new facts about it !  the great red spot is actually a huge anticyclonic storm thats lasted more than 347 years . although in 2009 they discovered at the start of 2004 it was half the size it was a century ago at the rate its going it will be circular by 2040 . it shrinks 1 kilometer a day thats kinda slow for its size but the fact its shrinking is amazing .   between 1996 and 2006 the spot lost 15 percent of its diameter along its major axis. with infrared cameras or telescopes have found out that the red spot is colder than most other clouds on the planet . The cloudtops of the great red spot is about 8 km higher then clouds around it. we got pictures of the GRS from the Galileo mission. this space craft used Earth's and Venus' gravity to sling shot to Jupiter. As it was doing its mission something went corrupt and it crashed into the redspot.    
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in 1966 scientist discovered its counterclockwise circulation. It is not knwn what makes the great red spot , red but theories supported by lab experiments suggest that the color may be red from organic molecules , red phosphorus , or another type of sulfur compound. the GRS can change color from darker to lighter. the spot was darkest the most in in 1961-66 , 1968-75 , 1989-90 , and 1992-93. 

my thoughts on the world beyond

                                      THE CELESTIAL SPHERE

the Celestial sphere is the discussion of objects in the sky that allow you to imagine them attached to a sphere surrounding the earth. this sphere has a bunch of points in it. just as we rotate in a direction the sphere rotates east to west.

   

The path of the Sun across the celestial sphere is very close to that of the planets and the moon. After clocks became available, it was a relatively straightforward job for astronomers to relate the path of the Sun in the daytime to the one of stars at night, and to draw it on their star charts. Because of its relation to eclipses, that path is known as the ecliptic

earth science test notes

key concepts
18.1
. water vapor is most important gas in the atmosphere
. the process of changing state requires energy two be transferred in the form of heat
18.2
. when air is allowed to expand it cools, and when it is compressed , it warms
. for condensation of water to occur the air must be saturated
18.3
. cloud are classified on the basis of their form and height
. fog is a cloud with its base or close two the ground

My test

for my test I wasnt that prepared and I could have studied more in order to prepare better but I did get a good grade

soil







While a nearly infinite variety of substances may be found in soils, they are categorized into four basic components: minerals, organic matter, air and water. Most introductory soil textbooks describe the ideal soil (ideal for the growth of most plants) as being composed of 45% minerals, 25% water, 25% air, and 5% organic matter. In reality, these percentages of the four components vary tremendously. Soil air and water are found in the pore spaces between the solid soil particles. The ratio of air-filled pore space to water-filled pore space often changes seasonally, weekly, and even daily, depending on water additions through precipitation, throughflow, groundwater discharge, and flooding. The volume of the pore space itself can be altered, one way or the other, by several processes. Organic matter content is usually much lower than 5% in South Carolina (typically 1% or less). Some wetland soils, however, have considerably more organic matter in them (greater than 50% of the solid portion of the soil in some cases).