{"id":66,"date":"2007-03-05T14:55:54","date_gmt":"2007-03-05T14:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=66"},"modified":"2007-03-18T12:24:57","modified_gmt":"2007-03-18T12:24:57","slug":"a-black-spot-on-jupiter-and-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/a-black-spot-on-jupiter-and-nasa\/","title":{"rendered":"A Black Spot on Jupiter and NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now, this story comes from a site called, &#8220;Enterprise Mission.&#8221; Something about that name discredits it just about right away.<\/p>\n<p>I found it fascinating, however. Apparently by plunging Galileo into Jupiter to avoid causing damage, NASA managed to ignite the Plutonium 238 fuel and create a nuclear explosion.<\/p>\n<p>The article argues that this explosion atomized some of the atmospheric contaminants including carbon, which formed elementary carbon creating a dark soot spot on Jupiter that had not been there before.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s even a little intrigue because it&#8217;s all supposedly only documented by the hobbyist community. That seems a little shady to me as well. I think I&#8217;ll look into the details if I have the time but it&#8217;s an interesting read nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p>Original Story: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enterprisemission.com\/NukingJupiter.html\" title=\"Click here to see the story, \" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.enterprisemission.com\/NukingJupiter.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Galileo Info.: <a href=\"http:\/\/galileo.jpl.nasa.gov\/\" title=\"Click here to see official information about the Galileo probe.\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/galileo.jpl.nasa.gov\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, this story comes from a site called, &#8220;Enterprise Mission.&#8221; Something about that name discredits it just about right away. I found it fascinating, however. Apparently by plunging Galileo into Jupiter to avoid causing damage, NASA managed to ignite the Plutonium 238 fuel and create a nuclear explosion. The article argues that this explosion atomized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-musings","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}