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.”
(Excerpt) Read more at gizmodo.com ...
Don’t know why I expected pictures of the planets when I got her annus.
I think it’s her head that’s there. Just a guess.
#7. But that is what my proctologist said about mine, and he knows anuses. He is not judgmental. He is a close observer.
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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LOL!
Rectum? Damn near killed him!
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.
Are we talking about black holes? Or perhaps brown holes (thats where gravity won’t even let smell escape).
Love that silly joke! I heard it “looking to wipe out Klingons”.
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God help me - it is 3:20 am here!! Hopefully the above would have seemed less funny at 3:20 pm.
What is needs is about a trillion tubes of Preparation H to relieve that burning sensation.
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.
Uranus has a tipped axis.
Ah
The Democrat celestial guide star
When two men “marry” does the “husband,” the “wife,” or do both suffer from “Uranus is messed up” syndrome?
“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
AOC: "If we could just get off, you know, our dependence on oil and SUV's, Uranus would be fine!"
This title just writes its own comedy routines...
Sorry,I ain’t touchin’ this one!
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