Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1905 — Disturbance on a Planet. [ARTICLE]

Disturbance on a Planet.

In 1878 something happened on Jupiter which caused a blotch to ap* pear in his southern hemisphere, near one of the great belts that cross his disk like huge bands of colored clouds. It was 30,000 miles longhand 8,000 milek broad, yet, after all, only a little patch on the mighty disk! It has remained ever since, sometimes brightening to almost tiie crimson hue of fire, and sometimes fading nearly to Invisibility.