On July 12, 2017, the Juno spacecraft made a close pass to Jupiter's Great Red Spot, the famous anticyclonic storm that dwarfs any other vortex in the solar system. The resulting images are some of the most detailed and spectacular observations of the storm ever taken. But that flyby told scientists something else: the famous centuries-old storm is on its last legs.

Jupiter's spot has been raging for at least 200 years, and probably longer. The first reliable drawings of the anticyclone were created in the mid 19th-century, and astronomers began photographing the planet-sized storm in the 1880s. Some less-reliable descriptions, which could refer to the Great Red Spot, date as far back as the 1600s.

The turbulent vortex is large enough to swallow the Earth whole, but when it was first discovered, the Great Red Spot was even greater—large enough to swallow about four Earths. But nothing lasts forever. In just 20 years or so, the Great Red Spot could be gone for good.

The storm is driven by rotating atmospheric bands traveling at up to 300 mph that keep the anticyclone swirling. The bands rotate in the opposite direction of the Great Red Spot and keep it spinning. They're like conveyor belts feeding momentum into the 'wheel' that’s spinning between them.

The Great Red Spot has more or less maintained its vertical length, or degrees of latitude, over the centuries. As it shrinks in longitude, it gets closer to a circular shape. But if it crosses the line and becomes prolate, a vertical ellipse, the same atmospheric conveyor belt that currently keeps it running could tear it apart. Even a circular storm would be a sign of the Great Red Spot's way out into the Great Red Beyond.

The death of the storm could prove to be a significant opportunity for scientists who study planetary atmospheres. Long-lasting storms on Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune are the result of poorly-understood churning within the depths of the planets' immense atmospheres. What causes the dynamics from below to bubble up to the surface and trigger megastorms is still a mystery.

Watching the Great Red Spot fizzle out will help scientists understand how the storm's energy is dispersed into Jupiter's atmosphere and potentially provide a glimpse of what lurks below the cloud tops. Understanding the depths of planets like Jupiter is the key to learning more about the other gas giants in the solar system, as well as those strewn across the galaxy.

Still, it will be bittersweet to see the Great Red Spot lost back into the depths of Jupiter. The storm has captured the imagination and terror of all humanity for centuries. But like a phoenix from the heart of Jupiter, another red storm of rage could burst to the surface of the giant planet.

Source: Popular Mechanics

FONTS AND WORDS – Can the art world save us from the punishment of bad sounding fonts or make moofing more acceptable – then there is still – CLEOPATRA AND HER BLACK BOX.

What a vibrational change it would make to the existence of the ASGARDIAN SPACE NATION/KINGDOM if we get to design our own unique word font. Dictionaries would follow just as in any other upcoming civilization as language and the written and verbal word go through its own evolution.

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The ‘Dubai Font’ is available in 23 languages, developed by Sheikh Hamdan; it is the world's first official ‘Microsoft Font’. It is designed to be elegant and have associations of beauty and poise. ‘Blackadder, Poor Richard’ etc. have always left me feeling that it is creepy using fonts with such names, feeling poisonous. Then there is the computer language called ‘Python’ just to add to the snake like terror of it all. I love beautiful, poetic language. Yet ……….

This week I thought of some words which had made it to the ‘ best word of the year list ’ over the last five of them.

I was thinking about some of them, which carry their own kind of weird vibe. How will one paint or draw a character which fits this description then?

‘’The man is a 99 percenter, stuck in FoMO most of the time, also a Googlegänger who humblebrags on Twitter who likes to ghost followers, is a real moofer and of course always; shovel – ready for movie parts. Just like someone who comes from the ‘ Naughties, Aughties, Oughties, etc.’ You can see it in the way he dresses, the way he moves.

Need help to translate?

Vocabulary:

99%, 99 percenters and the acronym FoMO ( Fear of Missing Out ) lost in a run-off with occupy

Googlegänger (a portmanteau of Google and Doppelgänger , meaning a person with your name who shows up when you google yourself)

humblebrag (expression of false humility, especially by celebrities on Twitter)

moofing (a PR firm-created term for working on the go with a laptop and cell phone)

ghost : (verb) abruptly end a relationship by cutting off communication, especially online.

shovel-ready (description of infrastructure projects that can be started quickly, when funds become available)

Naughties, Aughties, Oughties, etc. (alternative names for the decade 2000–2009 )

Text and Photo References:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_of_the_year

https://pixabay.com/en/camel-sunset-landscape-tourism-2500618/ - coffee - digital artist

G,Give me vote future profile.Geleceğin için profilime  girip oy ver.                                                       Ali KAYA                                                                13.Bölge Adayı  576 aday  arasından  65.siradayim. İlk  100 de tek  Türk adayıyım.

PRIMERA SESION PARLAMENTARIA GLOBAL DE ASGARDIA EN VIENA AUSTRIA

Una de las experiencias más satisfactorias y emocionantes de toda mi vida, formar parte de un Parlamento Global de la Industria Aeroespacial. Estoy para servir a la humanidad y lograr que esta logre su proyección exitosa hacia el espacio para la perpetuidad de esta.

Dentro de los objetivos de Asgardia está ser reconocida por la ONU (vamos en muy buen camino), colocar un arca en el espacio, una base lunar , robots en el espacio y muchas cosas más de visión de futuro.  Con los Comités de Ciencia y Manufactura estoy trabajando con todo un equipo de ingenieros y científicos de gran trayectoria global para cumplir mi lema de campaña:

"It is time for Earth technology to get humans to next stage of development. Earth 0 type civilization has to become a I Type civilization in the Kardadhev scale"

Asgardia está formado por personas de mucha trayectoria exitosa a nivel global. El futuro de la humanidad está en buenas manos !!!

Les agradezco sinceramente por su voto de respaldo y confianza para representarlos.  Siéntanse libres de hacerme llegar su visión, preguntas y propuestas para poderlas aprobar en el Parlamento para el bien de la humanidad.

ONE HUMANITY ONE UNITY !!!

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