This picture depicts a black spot on the face of Jupiter and the scientists are baffled as to what it is, whereas this picture depicts something else which might be one of the moons.
Eh…why did you alter the URL of your links and change the captions to say “holy shit?”
I’m no expert in these matters, but just as a rough visual estimate, the black spot seems to have about the same diameter as Mars, which I think is way too big to be in any way related to the space probe that we crashed into Jupiter.
Hmm… good point. I suppose if it was from the probe then somebody would have noticed it already. Unless it was dispersing under the cloud tops and then surfaced recently. Anyway it looked suspicious that it should come so soon after they toasted the probe.
Okay, maybe you didn’t. But if you follow the links from space.com’s home page, you’ll see that the images’ captions start with “A strange black spot…” and “A similar black spot,” not “A holy shit…” and “An even holier shit…” Somebody messed with the URL somewhere along the line.
But on preview, the code looks okay but somehow a <br> tag got stuck in the middle of the first one and when clicked, it splits the word “different” near the end, putting the last 2 letters on the next line.
So I’m just gonna try posting the pics with no captions.
Maybe the satelite was irradiated and picked up a strange cosmic virus that ressurrected the dead on Jupiter once it crashed, and what we’re seeing are swarms of Jupitarian zombies.
It looks similar to the spots caused by the Shoemaker-Levy-9 collision, but those spots appeared immediately after the collision and dissapated quickly. If they were caused by Gallelio, why didn’t they show up immediately? Jupiter’s day is about ten hours long, so the spacecraft’s reentry point would have rotated into view pretty soon after the impact. Why didn’t we see them then?