Posted on 12/18/2020 6:56:26 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
A team of scientists from NASA used the old Voyager 2 data and found some interesting information about Uranus. Uranus had blasted a gas bubble of enormous size, it was nearly 22,000 times bigger than Earth. A detailed research report was published on NASA website recently. It was also published in the geophysical research Letters on 9th August 2019. Giba DiBraccio and Daniel Gershman, the two scientists who made this discovery on Uranus. found the data from the age-old data archive of NASA....Scientists have not explored Uranus with any probes till now. Therefore, DiBraccio and Gershman used the archived data on Uranus to find more information about the blue planet. According to the portal, they manually processed and checked the data available from Voyager 2. Using this thirty-year-old data helped them to find something interesting....
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I won’t touch THAT line...
I assume that was the size the gas bubble expanded to in space before it became too diffuse to be detected.
Didn’t see that coming!!!
Attention astronomers: us Earthlings call that a fart.
Re “Scientists have not explored Uranus with probes until now”.
With farts of that size, I wouldn’t put a “probe” anywhere near or in Uranus, or anyone else’s for that matter. They would be “planet killers” and “star-destroyers” (The short SciFi movie “Darkstar”).
Capt. Kirk, at a far distance would look at Spock and say “Thar she blows”. To which Spock would reply, “Captain. Are you talking about Kamala Harris or Erica Swallowswell”?
A bubble can be several times bigger that the bubble pipe.
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