I just noticed that we haven't had any messed up science for quite a while. Today's "mythology edition" involves two terrific photos that came from the Smithsonian collection to which
Fairweather Lewis recently provided me with a link.
The first image is Jupiter's moon Io. You may recall Io as the little bovine goddess about whom I've blogged previously. Io's unusual "pizza" appearance is caused by the influence of more than 400 active volcanoes, which in turn are, of course, caused by the strong "gravitational pull" of Jupiter himself.
In other words, Io and Jupiter have a thing going on.
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Now, the little volcano that happens to be highlighted in this photo of Io is Prometheus, which has produced a continuous incandescent plume above Io's surface for many years. It seems our man Jupiter knows how to keep his little goddess satisfied.
Coincidentally, the next image is Jupiter, himself ... and more specifically, Jupiter's great red spot, which happens to look a little purple in this photo.
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In particular, I noticed how the Jupiter's great red spot and the Io's plume sort of line ... (oh, never mind).
And now, after a brief pause, back to our regularly scheduled programming of autumn leaves and Rorschach testing.
Hmmm ... am I the only one who sees those snakes on Jupiter's surface?
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