KUWAIT, Feb 14 (KUNA) -- The Kuwait Environment Protection Society (KEPS) has underscored the significance of the water consumption rationalization program that is part of the society's efforts aimed at raising people's awareness toward the environmental issues.
Unlike Uranus, Neptune sometimes exhibits a dark spot known as âthe great dark spot.â The 8,000 mile long spot, which resembles Jupiterâs Great Red Spot, is a huge area of storm activity that is thought to represent a hole in Neptuneâs methane cloud. Unlike Jupiterâs spot, however, the great dark spot seems to have a much shorter life-span and is cloud-free in the middle. There have been several of these spots that have come and gone on Neptune since 1989. Winds in excess of 1,500 miles per hour have been recorded within the spot, making it the solar systemâs windiest place.
Sunspots and Solar Storms. Galileo was the first to study dark spots on the Sun which we call sunspots. They typically measure about 10,000 kilometers across, which makes them on the order of the size of the Earth. They often occur in groups, and come and go.