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8 Aug 2024 16:16:04 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Experimenting with new features for rendering planets  
From: Cousin Ricky
Date: 31 May 2005 22:10:01
Message: <web.429d186189aa4a9e43a5e2560@news.povray.org>
Alain <ele### [at] netscapenet> wrote:

> Jupiter does have an atmosphere, in fact, it's all you see. It's a REALY thick one,
loaded with
> clouds biger than the earth to a deepth you can't realy conceive: >100 times earth
diameter deep!
> In the Jupiter view, the "atmosphere" shown would be deeper than the earth is whide.

Please review your references.  Earth's diameter is 12,756 km, and Jupiter's
is 142,984 km.  That leaves only 5.6 Earths to the center.

More realistically, the Great Red Spot is 2.5 to 3 Earths across.


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