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Whoa, Uranus Looks Totally Messed Up Right Now
Gizmodo ^ | February 8, 2019 | George Dvorsky

Posted on 02/08/2019 7:01:28 PM PST by EdnaMode

The appearance of a massive white cap on Uranus may seem alarming, but as planetary scientists are learning, this is what a prolonged summer looks like on the remote ice giant.

Ice giants Uranus and Neptune have water-rich interiors coated with hydrogen, helium, and a pinch of methane, the latter of which gives these outer planets their distinctive cyan complexion. Unlike Earth, where seasons last just a few months, Neptune and Uranus experience seasons that last for decades, resulting in strange and intense atmospheric phenomena.

New images released by the Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) program highlight a evolving atmospheric events on both ice giants, namely an extended white cap over Uranus’ north pole and a new dark vortex on Neptune. A long-term side project of the Hubble program, OPAL is an annual effort to map these two planets when their orbital paths bring them closest to Earth. The new data, captured during the autumn of 2018, are providing important new insights into the seasonal variations on both Neptune and Uranus.

“The yearly observations are helping us to understand the frequency of storms, as well as their longevity,” Amy Simon, a scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center who leads the OPAL mission, told Gizmodo. “That’s important because these planets are quite far from the Sun, so this will help constrain how they are forming and more about the internal heat and structure of these planets. Most of the extrasolar planets that have been found are this size of planet, though at all sorts of distances from their parent stars.”

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Chit/Chat; Humor; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: amysimon; astronomy; klingonsnearuranus; nasa; neptune; opalmission; ouranos; science; tippedaxis; uranus; xplanets
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To: EdnaMode

Don’t know why I expected pictures of the planets when I got her annus.


41 posted on 02/08/2019 9:12:01 PM PST by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L,J,Keslin posting here for the record)
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To: mosesdapoet

I think it’s her head that’s there. Just a guess.


42 posted on 02/08/2019 9:14:30 PM PST by Equine1952 (Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought)
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To: Olog-hai

#7. But that is what my proctologist said about mine, and he knows anuses. He is not judgmental. He is a close observer.


43 posted on 02/08/2019 9:19:26 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (with)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Thanks fieldmarshaldj, but I was hoping no one would find this out. Not cool. ;^)
Will ping the list later, after the Taco Bell wears off.
 
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44 posted on 02/08/2019 9:37:19 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: Drew68

LOL!


45 posted on 02/08/2019 9:40:50 PM PST by Darth Mall
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To: max americana

Rectum? Damn near killed him!


46 posted on 02/08/2019 9:54:27 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant.)
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To: ResponseAbility

Wait. I’m getting confused here. First Bug Eyes says the world is going to end in 12 years. And now she says Uranus is going to melt in the same amount of time. Well, how will anyone know if your anus... er... so sorry, pardon me, how will we know if the planet Uranus will melt if Earth is gone at the same time? I’ll telling ya, this girl is a handful. I can’t keep up with her.


47 posted on 02/08/2019 10:15:37 PM PST by jmacusa ("The more numerous the laws the more corrupt the government''.)
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To: EdnaMode

Are we talking about black holes? Or perhaps brown holes (thats where gravity won’t even let smell escape).


48 posted on 02/08/2019 10:30:31 PM PST by TonyM (Score Event)
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To: vrwconspiracist

Love that silly joke! I heard it “looking to wipe out Klingons”.


49 posted on 02/08/2019 11:30:17 PM PST by Blue Collar Christian (Socialism is for losers.)
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50 posted on 02/08/2019 11:41:35 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: SunkenCiv
Better yet, scrolling down the article page just now, I found: "Uranus-is-a-wonderland-and-we-should-go-there".

God help me - it is 3:20 am here!! Hopefully the above would have seemed less funny at 3:20 pm.

51 posted on 02/09/2019 1:23:29 AM PST by Paul R.
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To: ResponseAbility

What is needs is about a trillion tubes of Preparation H to relieve that burning sensation.


52 posted on 02/09/2019 1:29:40 AM PST by 21twelve (!)
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To: EdnaMode

Note: the distribution of large planet in this solar system is an anomaly compared to all the others discovered so far.

So whatever theory of formation they come up with is very likely going to be wrong or applicable only in rare instances but not the rule.


53 posted on 02/09/2019 2:04:05 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Paul R.
Uranus has a tipped axis.

54 posted on 02/09/2019 2:30:32 AM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: EdnaMode

Ah

The Democrat celestial guide star


55 posted on 02/09/2019 2:41:23 AM PST by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! Merry Christmas! In God We Trust!)
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To: EdnaMode

When two men “marry” does the “husband,” the “wife,” or do both suffer from “Uranus is messed up” syndrome?


56 posted on 02/09/2019 6:06:02 AM PST by Saltmeat
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To: hal ogen

“I refuse to talk about Uranus .”

Looks like the Change.org petition to change the name has closed.

Missed it by that much..

https://www.change.org/p/nasa-rename-uranus-to-urectum


57 posted on 02/09/2019 6:19:57 AM PST by Clay Moore (He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people)
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To: Trump_the_Evil_Left
dare we say it....... CLIMATE CHANGE !!

AOC: "If we could just get off, you know, our dependence on oil and SUV's, Uranus would be fine!"

58 posted on 02/09/2019 6:25:15 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: EdnaMode

This title just writes its own comedy routines...


59 posted on 02/09/2019 1:36:08 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: EdnaMode

Sorry,I ain’t touchin’ this one!


60 posted on 02/09/2019 4:47:13 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Mitt Romney: Bringing Massachusetts Values To The Great State Of Utah.)
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