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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I know that didn’t help much...
I would guess that on some bodies it might be possible to spot volcanism on the nightside, tho’ on many thick cloud layers would obscure such.
On Jupiter I’m thinking lightning has been spotted.
Then you have the occasional meteor, meteorite, or even rarely a comet impact.
Ah, but no locals, no aliens, no signs of light-polluting civilizations? :)
To image a planet from its night side on a single pass probe would generally provide very little information and would be seen as a waste of resources. The Cassini probe orbited Saturn so it certainly had views of the night side.
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