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Title: Jupiter
Post by: The Rev on November 28, 2010, 10:02:42 PM
I found this image and while it's no fractal, it does look incredibly familiar, doesn't it?  It's the cloud surface of Jupiter, depicting the storms and weather fluctuations over a surface approximately 2.5 Billion square miles (or 10x the surface area of the Earth).

The Rev


Title: Re: Jupiter
Post by: cKleinhuis on November 29, 2010, 12:18:11 AM
as  written in james gleick "chaos" book, the blob is a very stable chaotical structure, i dont know exactly, but i think i read somewhere that it is around 350 years old, i it is kind of a hurricane that doesnt goes away....