Posted on 04/01/2023 11:20:08 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
The weather is slowly changing on Jupiter and Uranus, according to our galaxy’s own interplanetary meteorologist.
The NASA Hubble Space Telescope captured Earth’s outer planetary neighbors in images from 2014 to 2022, documenting changes in the planets’ weather and seasons over time
With Jupiter at about 484 million miles (779 million kilometers) away from our sun and Uranus about 1.8 billion miles (3 billion kilometers) away, each takes longer to orbit the sun, which means a slower pace of seasons. But the gas giants still experience extreme weather. That’s especially true for Uranus, with its peculiar, tilted axis that causes one hemisphere to be completely without sunlight for about 42 years at a time.
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Satellite communications and imagery plus microwave ovens for starters
After a meteor shower, Uranus should look different...by Jupiter.
How could you possibly forget racism???
And a mirror....
Send Al Gore and John Kerry there immediately!
It’s a storm.
Jovian weather is improving.
I may look into booking a vacation there sooner than I thought possible.
Jupiter:
“I was taking a meteor shower. Did I miss anything?”
Well if Uranus looks different, maybe someone forgot to wash it.
I don't know about Jupiter....But Uranus probably developed a dingle-berry
On second thoughts...Jupiter probably moves too fast for a dingle-berry to form.
None of the planets emit significant visible light, so the side facing away from the sun is dark.
Let me expand upon your reply, ETCM:
NO planet or other major celestial body in our Solar System is TIDALLY LOCKED with respect to our Sun.
Hence: No planet or other major celestial body in our Solar System has a permanently dark side.
No real astronomer would ever use the expression "Dark Side." They would, at most, use the expression "Far Side" - though only with respect to our Moon.
It is, of course, to image the (momentarily) night side of a planet or moon. This has been done in the case of, e.g., Jupiter and Pluto.
Result: Mostly black.
Regards,
How about a glass bellybutton?
That’s funny😄
I keep telling scientists that the best way to study “climate change” is to stick their heads in Uranus.
They have been following my advice!
I find the stripes and different colors more puzzling than the spot.
The lighter “zones” are high altitude clouds while the darker “belts” are low altitude condensation layers. Or something like that. Jupiter has the most turbulent atmosphere in the solar system.
There are no dark sides to the planets; none of them are tidally locked. I think Jupiter rotates on its axis once every ten hours or so, so a probe can almost watch it turn in real time.
I understand that. My question is more general, when we look on the nightside, may be better wording, the dark side, are there any lights? Aliens?
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