what happend to neptune's great dark spot?
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The Great Dark Spot was a dark spot on Neptune similar to Jupiter's Great Red Spot. Although it looked the same, it was not a storm like Jupiter's spot. Instead, it was thought to be an atmospheric hole similar to the hole in Earth's ozone layer.\n\nThe spot was detected by NASA's Voyager 2 probe, which passed Neptune in 1989. It was comparable in size to Jupiter's spot, and was located in the southern hemisphere. Winds measured in the spot were up to 1,500 miles an hour (the highest of any planet). The spot appeared to change as the spacecraft flew by, and does so in many pictures of it. The spot was believed to have been rotating counterclockwise. Over the Great Dark Spot were concentrated regions of crystal methane and frozen water particle clouds that resemble cirrus clouds on Earth.\n\nWhen the Hubble Space Telescope viewed Neptune again in 1994, the spot had vanished. However, another spot very much like the old one appeared in the planet's northern hemisphere. It is currently not known why the Great Dark Spot appeared in the first place; whether it is a common occurrence on Neptune or a bizarre phenomenon remains to be seen.
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The dark shaded bitumen of the road was illuminated by the grim light beaming its way down from the over hanging light poles.\n\nAs the heavy darkness grew to an unbelievable level, the street lights suddenly turned on but with half as much power, making the ever darkening street, still seem unlit.\n\nThere's two you. Hope it helps.
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a new hurricaine like storm has been located on Saturn, and a large storm on Uranus has stopped, maybee it jumped ship!!!
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Have you stopped beating your wife yet? The way you pose the question is not sincere -- you've already interspersed conjecture. There ARE 4 corners to the earth when you look at the REAL earth from space. They are not sharp 90% angles, but nevertheless, the earth is not perfectly spherical. Check out DrDino.com and watch 28 hours of creation facts. There are far more holes in any other explanation for earth's beginning, just check them out. There were no clouds prior to the flood, it was a canopy of water. Similar, but not the same, Saturn has an ice halo around it. Earth had a complete canopy above it which regulated it temperature perfectly. Much thicker and integral than the ozone layer today. Upon God's judgment, God caused this canopy to colapse, forever altering the tropical paradise type atmosphere which allowed all manner of life to flourish, even at the poles. Animals with fresh produce still undigested have been found at the poles, frozen. Why? So God could be glorified thousands of years later when man would examine such evidence. Chances are God used a huge deep-space frozen comet or asteroid to knock the earth slightly out of a true orbit around the sun, the collision resulting in the collapse of the canopy AND cause the earth to tilt. If it were frozen nitrogen, it would quickly freeze even the largest of animals in the area the debris hit the earth. Keep in mind, God gives answers to the humble and the contrite in spirit, not to the proud.
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When the cloud of gas and dust that formed the sun began to gather together to form the sun, some of it didn't get sucked in by the increasing gravity at the center, but gathered together into less-dense "rings" around the newly-formed sun.\n\nThen gravity did its magic on those gases and dust, gathering them together into smaller balls, the planets. Around some of them were still smaller rings, which gathered together into moons, or, in some cases, more widely dispersed rings.\n\nIf you play with water, stirring it with a pencil to create a little whirlpool, then drop little bits of soil or even food coloring into it, you'll get a feel for how it might have happened. It's not the same, but if you watch it and try, you can imagine how it might have happened.\n\nThen, of course, you'll start wondering about hurricanes. <g>
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The Sun, in 4.5 billion years supposedly, WILL start to swell. It will get bigger, and en-gulp Mercury and Venus. The atmosphere will evaporate, water will melt, and life will be gone. The sun will swell enough to devour the earth, then shrink, grow, Turn into a planetary nebula, then shrink, for the last time, into a white dwarf. Then In a few billion years, cool down to a black dwarf.\n\nThe reason the sun expands, In case you want to know, Is because of its fuel supply. The energy from the sun comes from nuclear fusion of Helium. When the helium supply runs out, The sun has to fuse hydrogen, therefore making the sun swell. The sun then will Shrink, once its helium supply is restored, grow again, then cast out a planetary nebula (For what a planetary nebula looks like, Look up the ring nebula) then it wont have enough hydrogen to grow back to the normal size...and become a white dwarf. Eventually, it will cool into a black dwarf and die. \n\nAnd no, incase someone posts it, the sun will not become a black hole.
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You see the darkside during a fullmoon since what you see was the darkside two weeks earlier. I guess you mean the far side. That is a little harder but the Apollo program generated alot of pictures of the farside. Also numerous spaceprobes has mapped the entire surface of the moon. Should be plenty of pictures just on NASAs moon site.
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You have to understand that as telescopic and computing power increase, we will be finding tons of new "planets" in the solar system.  Most people agree, that Neptune is the last "true"  planet in the solar system.  Pluto is likely just an object in the Kuiper Belt, an area on the outskirts of the Solar System, where the Sun's influence dwindles rapidly and there are tons of rocks floating around.  Pluto has a minor atmosphere and a moon, Charon.  There is a debate that starts up every time a new large object is found around where Pluto is, this happens every few years.  Bottom line: there probably won't be any more planets added to the roster, and Pluto won't lose its planetary status...there is just too much involved in changing things.  So, to answer your question, Poseidon probably exists, but its probably not going to be a planet.
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Nasa has quite apparently manipulated the light and shadows on the second set of photographs so that the features of the face cannot be properly seen from that angle.  I suggest you investigate these matters on the web.  IMO both the moon, Mars, and Iapetus show signs of ancient ruins of one type or another.  I highly recommend the following site.  Perhaps Iapetus was the Ark that brought us here, Mars was our "Eden", and Earth is where we ended up when paradise was lost.
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all the light did was attract the fish lol. If fishing at night the fish will got to a light source in water. On pole or not on pole lol.
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GREAT QUESTION!!!!\n\nThe Kuiper Belt is the "leftovers" from when the Solar System was formed. It exists out past the orbit of Neptune.\n When our Solar System was forming out of an interstellar cloud, most of the matter was gravitationally pulled to the center. This caused the center to heat up until fusion began and our Sun was born. What was left behind began spinning around the new Sun and eventually became the nine planets, asteroids, and moons that make up our stellar home. \n There is an Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter that is made up of mainly rocky objects, but this is not the Kuiper Belt. As the Sun became hotter and hotter, it actually "melted * " all of the ice in the inner Solar system and pushed it out to the outer solar system along with most of the excess gas and dust left over from the Sun's creation. What was left in the inner Solar System was the rocky-- or terrestrial(Earth-like)-- planets of Mercury, Venus, Earth-Moon, Mars and the Asteriod Belt. \nThe ices, and gas that was pushed out farther became the four gas giants-- or Jovian(Jupiter-like)-- planets of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and all of the icey Moons that orbit them. \nIf the theory is correct, that why Jupiter has most of the excess mass left over from the Sun's creation at that part of the Solar System. It was far enough- and cold enough away from the Sun for the ice to become solid enough again. The cooler gas, collapsed down to become mostly Jupiter at that distance from the Sun. (That's why it was such a big surprise to discover Jupiter + sized planets around other stars at distances very close to their sun.) The rest of this gas became Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. \nFarther out than Neptune, the only things left were unmodified (not melted) ices. \nTHAT'S THE KUIPER BELT!\n It's believed to be another "asteroid belt" of sorts, but it is made up of mainly "dirty ice" which is mainly different kinds of ice and water ice with rocks and dust--think of it as dirt-- thrown in.(Astronomers can't just call something as simple as dirt, dirt, so they call it dust. Dust includes stuff like dirt, rocks, and anything else you might find in an interstellar cloud.) \n That is what Pluto and it's Moons are made of, as well as the recently discovered objects that are a little smaller than Pluto, and the one they found that is larger.\n That's why people are now questioning whether Pluto should be called a planet, because there are probably millions of these "Trans-Neptune objcts" out there waiting to be discovered. These little snowballs are of interest because they are basically undisturbed relics from before the Sun existed and can tell us quite a bit about the early Solar System, the Earth, and us!\n These ices should be different for the icy moons of Jupiter, Saturn, etc. because they weren't melted and pushed out away from the Sun. They were always far away beyond the orbit of Neptune and left undisturbed. \nStick around for the next 9 1/2 years as our Pluto spacecraft flys out there and notice all of the other discoveries of new Kuiper Belt Objects in the years before it arrives!!!\n ------------------------------------------------\n* Ice can't "melt" in the vacuum of space, so it goes straight from a solid to a gas. (We call solid water, for example, ice, and gaseous water, water vapor.)
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I cannot find anywhere where they actually say they found out what caused them to die.  One possibility was that sonar used by an american naval ship threw them off course.  \n\nI'm guessing...due to lack of interest in the results...that that might be the case because if it were anything else, I think the results would be posted everywhere!
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As far as we know there is no biome on Neptune as there is no life on Neptune.\n\nNeptune is very far from the Sun and very cold, temperatures at the surface (really the top of the atmosphere) are in the range of -218 C. Although this is slightly higher then expected, so there is some modest internal heat source in Neptune, as is the case with Jupiter and Saturn.\n\nThere is (probably) a rocky core at the center of Neptune, covered to great depth with a largely water filled interior (water or ice), but on top of this is a lot of hydrogen and helium. It isn't the most hospitable place for life.\n\nI'm not aware of any serious prospect for life on Neptune, even from the most optimistic astronomers.
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Hi. Usually a streak of color or brightness on a planet like Jupiter. Caused by striations in the clouds.
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Go to the following website to get the latest news on the Pluto - Kuiper Belt mission:\n\nhttp://pluto.jhuapl.edu/
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The light-colored zones lie above upward-moving convective currents in Jupiter's atmosphere (warm air rises). \nThe dark belts are regions representing the other part of the convection cycle, where material is generally sinking downward (cool air sinks).\nThe clouds lower in the atmosphere are warmer than the upper levels, so clouds moving upward (the light zones) will be warmer than the surrounding darker clouds that have cooled and are sinking down.\n\nAs for the colours themselves, scientists believe that the cloud colors are the result of complex chemical processes occurring in the planet's turbulent upper atmosphere, although the details are still not fully understood. \nWhen we observe Jupiter's colors, we are actually looking down to many different depths in the planet's atmosphere.
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I can think of 2 possibilities.  One is when they use an occulting disk to block out the Sun (because it is so bright), so you see a black disk, and then you can see the space around the Sun.  They do that to look at the atmosphere around the Sun.  Take a look at the first link below.\n\nThe other possible answer is that the photographs are not taken in normal visible light but some other wavelength.  in the second link, there is a picture where the Sun's 'normal' surface looks dark.  The caption helps explain it.