Jupiter question

"Brian Gaff" writes:

I just wondered if it might be possible to get some radar images of Jupiter
so that the clouds could be 'seen' at the different levels.

Not from Earth.

Radar suffers from an inverse _FOURTH_ power signal loss --- 1/r^2 out, and
another 1/r^2 back. Also, it's resolution pretty much sucks compared to light,
because its wavelength is so much longer.


It was indeed intriguing that the probe seems to have contradicted what
everyone supposed was the case, or did it just hit a strange point by a
fluke?

It is now generally believe that it had the flukey bad luck of hitting a
"Jovian Hot Spot" --- a deep hole through the cloud decks, probably caused
by an energetic plume of hot, dry gas rising up from deep within Jupiter.


-- Gordon D. Pusch

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