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   "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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