Recent content by Patrick Gisler

"Proof" is not a good word to use in this case. The observed structures do have similarities to glacial moraines on Earth, enticing detailed study of those structures. Considering the structures as glacial moraines is a "working hypothesis," one among some number of multiple working hypotheses.

Big and beautiful and best! What is there not to like about the Big Dog on the block? I think Jupiter has been overlooked as a suitable environment for life. Pressure, temperature and chemical conditions roughly 150-200 miles below the cloud tops on Jupiter are remarkably similar to...

The "critical point" is the point of temperature and pressure at which there is no longer a phase change between two or three phases of a substance. For example, water exists in three "phases": as water ice (solid phase), liquid water (liquid phase), and water vapor (gaseous phase). The...

While Jupiter may not have a "surface," there very well may be surfaces of solid ammonium hydrogen sulfide roughly 175 miles below cloud tops. The solids may be tiny flakes, snowballs, floating islands, or even continent-sized blocks floating buoyantly in the dense supercritical hydrogen...

Looks like an Earth-orbiting satellite shadow.

Please attach a picture or provide a location for the best one of these hexagonal craters.

Best SCI-Fi Film by far: Starship Troopers. Best SCi Fi Film Music by far: Starship Troopers

I suspect that solids may play a role by interfering with fluid flow of the atmosphere. A few hundred kilometers below cloud tops, higher pressures should give rise to ammonium ice, water ice, solid ammonium hydrogen sulfide and probably some other solid substances. These solids ( dust, sand...

We also know that our current climate is within the 10% coldest periods in Earth's history. Polar ice caps are the exception, not the rule in Earth history. So warming not only is expected, but is normal. Man's contribution may accelerate changes that are coming anyway. Personally, I don't...

When the announcement refers to altitude such as "far above" and far below, and 300 km, what is the reference altitude? The top of the atmosphere?

In answer to the young lady's question: No. Carbon was formed from nuclear reactions inside stars, which did not form until sometime much later than the Big Bang, but before supernovae. Supernovae spread carbon around in the area of each exploding star. But the star made the carbon, not the...