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The Great Red Spot on Jupiter is a giant storm of swirling clouds that has lasted for more ... winds of up to 400 miles per hour within the swirling storm. Currently, the Great Red Spot is only about half as large as it was 100 years ago. Scientists do not know how long the storm causing the Great Red Spot will continue. ---- Answer provided by Laura Peckyno & Robert Peckyno Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question ...

No, the Sun is not a big red star. Actually, our Sun is a small yellow green star that is very stable and, ...

The red color of Mars is due to the presence of iron oxide, or rust, on its ...

'''Author - G.L. Matloff '''Co-Author(s)''' - '''JBIS Volume ''' - Contents of the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society for Volume 63 63 '''Page ''' - 74-77 '''Year''' - 2010 '''Keywords''' - Interstellar migration, solar sail, giant star '''JBIS Reference Code ''' - 2010.63.74 '''Number of Pages''' - 4 Abstract Our Sun will eventually leave the main sequence and ...

... Hank Hartsfield, Steve Nagel, Bonnie Dunbar, Reinhard Furrer, and Wubbo Ockels. I was on the Red Team with Jim Buchli and Ernst Messerschmid. Late in the training flow, we started training ... pleasure to work with both Ernst Messerschmid and Ulf Merbold. They were true professionals. During Red Team shift operations, Jim Buchli and I had to work a persistent cabin leak problem ... was free to operate on either team; however, he was mostly a part of the Red Team. Each team would work twelve-hour alternating shifts. RMS operations were assigned to Greg ...

... the first time to witness the birth of a second red spot (dubbed Red Spot Jr.) on the planet Jupiter. The Great Red Spot, which dates at least to the seventeenth century, is ... ’s cloud deck, the Sun’s ultraviolet light chemically altered the material, giving it a red hue. Astronomers also speculated that the HST images could indicate a major climate change in ... ’s atmosphere, related to the new spot. ''HubbleSite, “Hubble Snaps Baby Pictures of Jupiter’s ‘Red Spot Jr.’” news release STScl-2006-19, 4 May 2006, http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive ...

... , but maybe it was the payload commander set up the rivalry from the beginning, the red shift and the blue shift, because the mission specialists and the payload specialists were assigned ... him, “You know, you really should be blue. You really don’t belong with those red guys.” laughs '''Wright:''' The International Microgravity Laboratory IML , this was the second time it had ... you have any questions? '''Morgan:''' I do. Your first mission, you were talking about the red shift and the blue shift. '''Chiao:''' Yes. '''Morgan:''' I’ve got two questions on that ...

... . ''Release 15-036 (Goddard)'' '''Hubble’s Planetary Portrait Captures New Changes in Jupiter’s Great Red Spot''' Scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have produced new maps of Jupiter – the ... described in an Astrophysical Journal paper, available online. The new images confirm that the Great Red Spot continues to shrink and become more circular, as it has been doing for years ... vortex. This filamentary streamer rotates and twists throughout the 10-hour span of the Great Red Spot image sequence, getting distorted by winds blowing at 330 miles per hour (150 meters ...

... to the formation of eddies. Spectacular examples of long-lived eddies (anticyclones) are the Great Red Spot (GRS) on Jupiter and the Great Dark Spot (GDS) on Neptune. The dimensions of ... first investigated by Isaac Newton around 1670) which splits the light into its constituent colors (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet), absorbed by a filter, scattered by a rough ... is called the cosmological redshift in which the light emitted by a distant galaxy is red shifted due to the expansion of the universe. Measurement of this cosmological redshift yields information ...

... H. Rick Hauck, who was later my commander of my flight, was head of the red group. It’s interesting how these military folks just emerge as leaders. Those two guys ... Judy had this—she and Jim were in an office together. They had gotten this red recliner chair. I used to keep it after the Challenger accident. I always made sure ... a little marker or something to put on there. '''Fisher:''' It’s a red leather recliner. Burgundy, not bright red. '''Ross-Nazzal:''' Now I’m looking at our clock. I notice your ...

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