Posted on 04/11/2022 12:17:00 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Two decades worth of observations revealed unexpected cooling of the solar system's most distant planet Neptune amid its astronomical summer.
Neptune is orbiting 30 times farther away from the sun than Earth with one year lasting 165 Earth years. The ice giant's seasons, too, last much longer than those on Earth — more than 40 Earth-years each.
As the planet moved into its southern summer over the past two decades, astronomers observed its average global temperatures plummet by a staggering 14 degrees Fahrenheit (8 degrees Celsius).
The observed cooling, however, wasn't uniform, the researchers said in the statement.
Measurements of Neptune's stratosphere, the second lowest layer of the planet's atmosphere, revealed a warming trend above Neptune's south pole. This data set, which only contained data from a two-year period between 2018 and 2020, revealed a speedy warming of about 20 degrees F (11 degrees C). The scientists said that such polar warming has never been observed on Neptune before.
Previous studies suggested there might be a link between the amount of sunspots and Neptune's brightness. The new study also found some evidence of a possible connection between the solar cycle, the brightness of clouds in Neptune's atmosphere and the temperature of its stratosphere.
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It’s anthropomorphic global warming. Obviously. And Republicans are causing it.
Neptune is fine, but what about Uranus?
They’ll blame it on whatever will give them funding.
Trump’s fault
As hot as ever. Or so the ladies tell me.
SUV’s, of course!
Global warming is not exclusive to Earth. We are affecting the whole galaxy, apparently.
Exactly. For Democrats, everything is a zero sum game.
So if Neptune is cooling, it’s because Earth is warming, caused by a lack of funding earmarked to stop it.
In the past, Mars, Earth, and the other planets all showed temperature signs in sync. It’s just that we have grossly biased scientists on Earth that constantly tweak up all temperatures after the fact, including independent satellite temperature readings, to keep up their world control.
This simply means our temperatures are extremely likely to be coming down, too.
Cooling on Uranus is a cause for concern of “rough and dry” conditions....
See? Time Magazine TOLD us this would happen. In the 1970’s. On Earth. But still, they told us...
Too much CO2 in the atmosphere? No that can’t be it.
We are soaking up all the sun’s energy. In ten years the planet will burst into a burning ball of fire.
It is almost 3 billion miles from the sun, after all.
Climate change.
Thanks.
I just thought of my new pronouns.
I’m ditching Your Majesty, to Neptune god of the seas.
And if you “mis-gender” me, I’ll hit the abuse button.
What do you think?
5.56mm
Yeah, but what about Uran... oh never mind.
Clearly Neptune needs more SUVs to help warm up the planet!
Neptune is the 4th largest planet we know of.
It’s known as a Gas Giant. (BURP!)
Maybe it is now running out of gas, or available fuels.
Not everything in Outer Space is infinite in supply or level of refinement.
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