{"id":500,"date":"2006-06-05T17:48:45","date_gmt":"2006-06-06T00:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=500"},"modified":"2006-06-06T07:51:37","modified_gmt":"2006-06-06T14:51:37","slug":"huge-4th-of-july-display-on-jupiter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2006\/06\/05\/huge-4th-of-july-display-on-jupiter\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge 4th of July Display &#8212; on Jupiter!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And, on an astronomical scale, it <strong>IS<\/strong> huge! We reported in a previous article,  <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=455\">See Spot Run<\/a> about the two red spots on Jupiter, <strong>Great Red<\/strong> and <strong>Red, Jr.<\/strong> Time to get the backyard telescope out and get it tuned up for this!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/headlines\/y2006\/05jun_redperil.htm?list95364\">NASA &#8211; Huge Storms Converge<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-images\/0606\/redspots.jpg\" class=\"right\" \/>June 5, 2006: The two biggest storms in the solar system are about to go bump in the night, in plain view of backyard telescopes. <\/p>\n<p>Storm #1 is the Great Red Spot, twice as wide as Earth itself, with winds blowing 350 mph. The behemoth has been spinning around Jupiter for hundreds of years. <\/p>\n<p>Storm #2 is Oval BA, also known as &#8220;Red Jr.,&#8221; a youngster of a storm only six years old. Compared to the Great Red Spot, Red Jr. is half-sized, able to swallow Earth merely once, but it blows just as hard as its older cousin.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/headlines\/y2006\/05jun_redperil.htm?list95364\">more<\/a>]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And, on an astronomical scale, it IS huge! We reported in a previous article, See Spot Run about the two red spots on Jupiter, Great Red&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-rocket-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}