Computer Science
Scientific paper
Jan 1882
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1882natur..25..265d&link_type=abstract
Nature, Volume 25, Issue 638, pp. 265 (1882).
Computer Science
Scientific paper
EARLY in the present month this singular object became obscured, so that on January 1 I could scarcely distinguish it at all, and on the 3rd, 5th, and 6th it was noted as extremely faint. The origin of the spot's disappearance was obvious. A dark mass on the north border of the great south belt (and therefore in the same latitude as the white spot) appeared on December 14; it followed the white spot 1h. 4m., according to observations by Mr. A. S. Williams at Brighton. The dark spot moved with more rapidity than the latter, and soon overtook it, so that as the former swept over it, its disappearance was complete. On January 6 the white spot was seen struggling through the southeast limits of the dark patch. On January 7 it had further freed itself, and I saw it much plainer, though it still continued somewhat faint. On January 9 it was bright, and evidently on the point of regaining1 its normal brilliancy. The dark patch referred to is obviously of the same character as the train of black spots visible on one of the northern belts last winter; they move with even greater velocity than the white spot, and are somewhat evanescent as regards duration. They appear to be excrescences from the surface of Jupiter, and as they near the outer envelopes, are dispersed into longitudinal bands; in fact, it is these dark spots which sustain the decided tone of the belts, for the latter show a disposition to become fainter, until reinforced by the commingling of these dark eruptions.
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