Posted on 03/26/2020 7:20:45 PM PDT by BenLurkin
As NASA reports in a new post, researchers recently discovered that Voyager 2 cruised through a blob of charged gas called a plasmoid as it passed the planet. The spacecrafts journey through the plasmoid lasted only about a minute, but that was still long enough for scientists to spot the anomaly in the decades-old data.
The scientists believe that gas loss may have already drained as much 55% of the planets atmosphere. Loss of atmosphere resulting in plasmoids has been observed around other planets in our solar system, including Saturn and Jupiter, though its thought that Uranus has leaked far more of its gas than the rest.
Uranus is an incredibly strange planet when compared to its peers in our system. It rotates on its side, making it an immediate standout. On top of that, it has a distinct wobble that astronomers have been trying to explain for a long time. Its believed that a massive object slammed into Uranus a long time ago, and its bizarre movement today is a direct result of that event.
The data revealed a helical bundle of magnetic flux containing planetary plasma, known as a plasmoid, in the tail of the magnetosphere, the researchers write in a paper published in Geophysical Research Letters. This first observation of a plasmoid in an Ice Giant magnetosphere elucidates processes that occur in the magnetosphere of Uranus and suggests that plasmoids may play a large role in transporting plasma.
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Plasma is not a gas but the fourth and most common form of matter. 99.999% of matter in the Universe, since magical dark matter does not exist is composed of plasma. Plasma do not at all act like a gas.
I care not to speak about Pelosi and Schumer.
Beano!
Yuck! Better get AOC right on it.
Have you ever read the description of Uranus' Klingons?
" has 27 known moons... divided into three groups: thirteen inner moons, five major moons, and nine irregular moons. The inner moons are small dark bodies that share common properties and origins with Uranus's rings. The five major moons are ellipsoidal..., and four of them show signs of internally driven processes such as canyon formation and volcanism on their surfaces."
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I knew a Mexican guy....
They are both input and output. One is input for the others output. They are piped together. Picture it. They are self-inflating egos, self-bloviating, self-expanding, self-feeding gasbags, both filled with each others methane. Its easy when they have their respective heads up each others asses. Now, picture that!
Uhhhhhh.... nevermind.
... only if you give her $35m for the Kennedy Center...
I thought for sure you had changed the article title for the sake of a cheap joke, but no.
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Yep - had black-eyed peas and pork soup/stew one day and cabbage soup the next day - smells kind of German in here...
You’re a star!
Thanks! I never knew exactly what a standard Elvis equates to. That is a handy little table.
In Space, no one can hear you fart.
Maybe we should re-name the planet Hillary.
It was humor
Ok, who taught Uranus the “pull my finger!” gag?
Of course! Everything here is humor on this thread, including my reply about the moons of Uranus, put them in terms of feces.
"small dark bodies that share common properties and origins with Uranus's rings"
"show signs of internally driven processes such as canyon formation and volcanism on their surfaces". Pretty much describes some crap after eating spicy food.
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