C.J. Moseley's Blog, page 186
August 10, 2013
science-junkie:
Revealed the mystery of the gigantic storm on…
Revealed the mystery of the gigantic storm on Saturn
… Approximately once every Saturnian year - equivalent to 30 Earth years - an enormous storm is produced on the ringed planet and which affects the aspect of its atmosphere on a global scale. These gigantic storms are known as Great White Spots, due to the appearance they have on the atmosphere of the planet…
The research [the Planetary Sciences Group of the University of the Basque Country] revealed the mechanism that produces this phenomenology. The team of scientists designed mathematical models capable of reproducing the storm on a computer, providing a physical explanation for the behaviour of this giant storm and for its lengthy duration. The calculations show that the focus of the storm is deeply embedded, some 300 km above the visible clouds. The storm transports enormous quantities of moist gas in water vapour to the highest levels of the planet, forming visible clouds and liberating enormous quantities of energy. This injection of energy interacts violently with the dominant wind of Saturn to produce wind storms of 500 km/h. The research also showed that, despite the enormous activity of the storm, this was not able to substantially modify the prevailing winds which blow permanently in the same direction as the Earth’s parallels, but they did interact violently with them…
Apart from the curiosity of knowing the physical processes underlying the formation of these giant storms on Saturn, the study of these phenomena enable us to enhance our knowledge of the models employed in research into meteorology and the behaviour of the Earth’s atmosphere, in a very different environment and impossible to simulate in a laboratory.
Source: eurekalert.org
August 9, 2013
August 8, 2013
August 7, 2013
mangoblazee:
We are farmers
We are farmers
Science in Science-Fiction
I’ve been writing a once a month blog piece on Science in Science Fiction. How science fiction authors have used real science to make their science-fiction believable, or even to give them the idea for the plot.
You can view these posts together on my website
August 6, 2013
gargoylesstandingonsuperheroes:
This should be an Industry…
gargoylesstandingonsuperheroes:
This should be an Industry Standard.
Yes… I don’t mind cuts (as much there is always a time issue with a movie of a book) but whole new scenes/characters and a whole new direction always irritates.
August 5, 2013
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister…
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, ‘and what is the use of a book,’ thought Alice, ‘without pictures or conversations?’
August 4, 2013
August 3, 2013
unknowneditors:
Brazilian street artist Herbert Baglione has…
Brazilian street artist Herbert Baglione has somehow managed to make an abandoned psychiatric hospital in Parma, Italy even creepier with his paintings of shadows.
Be sure to check out Unknown Editors on Tumblr & Facebook.
