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AURORA WATCH: A solar wind stream is heading for Earth and it could cause a geomagnetic storm when it arrives on April 21st or 22nd.
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AURORA WATCH: A solar wind stream is heading for Earth and it could cause a geomagnetic storm when it arrives on April 21st or 22nd.
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What does that mean? Sorry I'm not up on these things.I looked at the links but didnt understand them. Need a translator LOL
I have been thinking about seeing signs in the stars. Did you all see the story about the storm on Saturn. It has been going for about 40 years, and it is shaped like a perfect hexagon. It's like a giant super hurricane on one of the planet's polls. With this, Mars heating up, and solar storms, should we not expect cataclysm on Earth, too?
Off of foxnews.com
<img src="http://www.foxnews.com/images/272841/0_21_saturn_hexagon.jpg">
<img src="http://www.foxnews.com/images/272841/0_62_saturn_storm.jpg">
One of the most bizarre weather patterns known has been photographed at Saturn, where astronomers have spotted a huge, six-sided feature circling the north pole.
Instead of the normally sinuous or circular cloud structures seen on all planets that have atmospheres, this thing is a hexagon.
The honeycomb-like feature has been seen before. NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft imaged it more than two decades ago. Now, having spotted it with the Cassini spacecraft, scientists conclude it is a long-lasting oddity.
"This is a very strange feature, lying in a precise geometric fashion with six nearly equally straight sides," said Kevin Baines, atmospheric expert and member of Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
"We've never seen anything like this on any other planet," he added. "Indeed, Saturn's thick atmosphere, where circularly-shaped waves and convective cells dominate, is perhaps the last place you'd expect to see such a six-sided geometric figure, yet there it is."
The hexagon is nearly 15,000 miles (25,000 kilometers) across. Nearly four Earths could fit inside it.
Thermal imagery shows the hexagon extends about 60 miles (100 kilometers) down into the clouds.
At Saturn's south pole, Cassini recently spotted a freaky human eye-like feature that resembles a hurricane.
"It's amazing to see such striking differences on opposite ends of Saturn's poles," said Bob Brown, team leader of the Cassini visual and infrared mapping spectrometer at the University of Arizona. "At the south pole we have what appears to be a hurricane with a giant eye, and at the north pole of Saturn we have this geometric feature, which is completely different."
The hexagon appears to have remained fixed with Saturn's rotation rate and axis since first glimpsed by Voyager 26 years ago. The actual rotation rate of Saturn is still uncertain, which means nobody knows exactly how long the planet's day is.
"Once we understand its dynamical nature, this long-lived, deep-seated polar hexagon may give us a clue to the true rotation rate of the deep atmosphere and perhaps the interior," Baines said.
Bah, I couldn't post the picture. Here's the link: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,262084,00.html
My daughter did a thing on this storm on Saturn in school, very interesting.
Last night I went out and looked at the sky it was very very clear and I think it was Venis not sure very close to the moon and it was as bright as I have every seen just glowing. Very bright.
Wow, this is a busy week.
Maybe, maybe not.Originally Posted by Kyle910
We live in a very hostile universe. The fact that the earth has been graced with a somewhat less than hostile history, imo, testifies to the existence and provision of a creator and not to a mere chance via chaos reality.
Whether the earth's good luck is running out or whether we're due for another collision with "outter space", it's good to know we have a God who is mindful of us regardless of what lies ahead.
Last edited by Abba'sLil'Girl; April 20th, 2007 at 09:34 PM.
I'm talking about weather, not necessarily collisions, though some are prophesied.
Thanks for the heads up lighthouse! I think I'll check out the night sky this weekend. Two nights ago, as I was driving to work (10:30 pm), I saw a clear crescent moon with Venus very bright, close to it. They were low on the horizon, so they appeared very large and bright in the cool Canadian high pressure that was clearing out the skies overhead. God weaves such a beautiful tapestry.
It would be nice to see some auroras from this geomagnetic storm though, and as an added bonus for sky watchers, we have this going on for show the next two nights:
What's Up in Space -- 21 Apr 2007 http://www.spaceweather.com/WEEKEND METEORS: Earth is entering the dusty tail of Comet Thatcher, and this will cause a mild meteor shower this weekend. It's called the Lyrid meteor shower because the bits of incandescent comet dust appear to come from the constellation Lyra. The best time to look is during the dark hours before dawn on Sunday, April 22nd, and Monday, April 23rd, when you can expect to see a shooting star overhead every 5 minutes or so.
Thatcher?
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On a more serious note, satellite communications and radio broadcasts might get disrupted for a while.
Thanks for the post Lighthouse. Good to see you still keep up with the sun and good to see you too
It just amazes me how fragile our tiny planet is.. It just awes me to think of the reprecussions if an EMP bomb were dropped on this nation.
Oh, I'm sorry. You wrote specifically of "stars", "Saturn" and other cosmic details . . . so that's why I thought you were headed in that direction.
My apologies.
No need to apologize. You helped me to clarify what I was saying. If you look at the great disturbances - like crazy weather on other planets and the sun, I think we should expect some similar changes here, right?Oh, I'm sorry. You wrote specifically of "stars", "Saturn" and other cosmic details . . . so that's why I thought you were headed in that direction.
My apologies.
Perhaps. However, we are the only "somewhat quiet" and hospitable planet in our solar system. We've enjoyed a "somewhat comfortable" existence so far. Our solar system could be going through a new era of unprecedented change or could be just rolling along doing it's thing.
Who knows for sure? I sure don't.
The reprecussions on the global economy would be too far devastating to not impoverish the company that did it eventually. So I think it's more likely to get hit by a meteor.
NASA launches satellite to study strange clouds
A rocket carrying a NASA spacecraft was launched Wednesday on a first-ever mission to study mysterious clouds that float 50 miles (80 kilometers) above Earth.
The noctilucent clouds, which cluster around the polar regions and can only been seen at night, have appeared more often and grown brighter in recent years. Scientists are puzzled by the changes, but some suggest they may be due to global climate change.
entire article:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satelli...cle%2FShowFull
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NASA Satellite Begins Mission to Study Earth's Highest Clouds
A NASA satellite the size of a small piano shot into space Wednesday atop an air-launched rocket, kicking off a two-year mission to study odd clouds high above Earth that shine brightest at night.
entire article:
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches...s_aimlnch.html
i think they're beautiful!But while the phenomena were first observed in 1885, researchers still don’t know how the clouds form, why they vary and their connections to Earth’s changing climate or the Sun’s energy.
“They are increasing in frequency. They are getting brighter and are appearing at lower latitudes than before,” AIM principal investigator Jim Russell, of Virginia’s Hampton University, said of AIM’s cloudy quarry Wednesday just before launch. “We need to know why it’s happening and what the relationship is to global climate change and to what we’re doing to our atmosphere.” ?
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