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Council of Jupiter, Minerva, and Mercury

1805

After John Flaxman (1755–1826)

Etching on paper

Tate Gallery

You find luxury and relaxation in odd ways. You may also have a sort of unrest in more conventional ways of relaxing. You may be constantly racing about and thinking. Your gut feeling may mislead you about tradition. You may let yourself find comforts in things that you may find bad.

Today’s Queer ~*Canon*~ of the Day is: Venus is a lesbian trans girl. Jupiter and Neptune are lesbians. Venus is in a polyamorous relationship with Jupiter and Neptune.

Two weeks ago President Barack Obama signed a bill that outlines government spending for the remainder of the fiscal year (until September 30). The bill, H. R. 933, which was passed by the House and Senate before reaching President Obama, includes an increase in funding for NASA’s planetary science research program. One line in particular is peeking the interest of planetary scientists. On page 64, the bill reads: “$75,000,000 shall be for pre-formulation and/or formulation activities for a mission that meets the science goals outlined for the Jupiter Europa mission in the most recent planetary science decadal survey.” NASA has received $75 million to begin developing technology for a mission to Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons.

Jupiter's Great Red Spot from Voyager 1 

Credit: NASA, JPL; Digital processing: Björn Jónsson (IAAA)

It is a hurricane twice the size of the Earth. It has been raging at least as long as telescopes could see it, and shows no signs of slowing. It is Jupiter's Great Red Spot, the largest swirling storm system in the Solar System. Like most astronomical phenomena, the Great Red Spot was neither predicted nor immediately understood after its discovery. Still today, details of how and why the Great Red Spot changes its shape, size, and color remain mysterious. A better understanding of the weather on Jupiter may help contribute to the better understanding of weather here on Earth. The above image is a recently completed digital enhancement of an image of Jupiter taken in 1979 by the Voyager 1 spacecraft as it zoomed by the Solar System's largest planet. At about 117 AU from Earth, Voyager 1 is currently the most distant human made object in the universe and expected to leave the entire solar heliosheath any time now.