 | Infrared Shoemaker-Levy 9 Jupiter Images Betray Polar HeatEveryone remembers the infamous comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 aka the 'String of Pearls' that slammed into Jupiter on July 1994. Well, it turns out that just about every astronomical 'eye' or observatory was turned towards Jupiter on that fateful day yielding a plethora of infrared images for us to peruse ... |
 | NASA Admits 'Hole at the Pole' of SaturnI have to admit, this one really makes me laugh. The title of this NASA article is "The Hole at the Pole" and references the vortex locked to the southern pole of Saturn. The thing that makes this ironic is that they know exactly what they are saying. They also know that the only way that a vortex storm formation could stay fixed in ... |
 | Tropical Jungle Found in World's Largest CaveVietnam's Hang Son Doong cave is the largest in the world, with caverns big enough to fit a skyscraper. It even has its own jungle! With possibly the biggest subterranean passage in the world, it has enough space to fit a half-mile block of 40-story buildings. Having discovered a cave like this close to the surface, it all of a sudden becomes more plausible to imagine a forest ... |
 | Saturn's Polar Thermal EmissionsThis false color composite image of Saturn is constructed from data collected in the near-infrared wavelengths of light: blue is used to indicate sunlight reflected at a wavelength of 2 microns, green to indicate sunlight reflected at 3 microns and red to indicate thermal emission at 5 microns. The heat emission from the interior of Saturn is only seen at 5 microns wavelength ... |
 | NASA CAPER Probe Launched to Study theScientists only recently discovered that the bulk of the plasma or ions that are injected into the Earth's magnetosphere are actually from the Earth's polar cleft ion fountains ... not the sun. Indeed, the Earth's magnetosphere is buffeted by solar ion winds, but what causes the auroral displays are ... |
 | Why is there a Hole at the Pole?People often ask "Why must the Earth be hollow and why must there be a hole at each pole?" This is a fair question, one which we can answer easily enough ... yes, using science. To begin, let's ask ourselves — "What do we observe with most spinning systems in nature ... hurricanes, tornadoes, whirlpools or water vortices, etc.?" Well, one common feature they all ... |
 | NASA Explains Why the Hole is at the PoleWhen trying to show how the hottest area of Enceladus could end up at what is normally the coldest area of the planet, the pole, NASA explains that the least dense portions of a spinning body will eventually line up with the axis of rotation. NASA uses the example of how a spinning bowling ball (if not counterbalanced) will eventually shift until its least dense portion, its ... |
The Black Dot Marks the SpotMost people are not unfamiliar with the ominous black "hole" present in most government images of the north pole and Arctic sea ice. Well, there is a very good reason for this. As we've gone over before, due to the presence of an actual hole in the top and bottom of the Earth, polar orbiting satellites cannot traverse the opening, thereby ... |
 | Molten Magnetism?It is a commonly held tenant that when a permanent magnet is heated the magnetic domains realign themselves so as to locally cancel out any net magnetic field and it's permanent magnetic domain is entirely destroyed. It's even more difficult (if not impossible) to sustain a permanent magnetic field in a liquid or a molten environment as the individual magnetic domains ... |
 | Conservation of Angular Momentum in Planetary FormationIn any spinning system there are two forces present: centrifugal acceleration and centripetal acceleration. In the case of our earth, gravity provides the centripetal component of acceleration which pulls us towards the center of mass. Centrifugal acceleration, on the other hand, wants to pull us off ... |
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