Spacecraft images lead astronomer to discover something strange inside Uranus
There's something strange inside Uranus new research suggests!
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The
surface of Mars has been an extravagant journey for the folks on planet
Earth via NASA’s images shared online. While the folks on Earth
acquaint themselves with the red planet, an astronomer from the University of Arizona has discovered something odd inside another planet, Uranus, reports TVNZ One News on Nov. 15.
With the headlines today blaring "Something strange is found inside Uranus" it is hard to keep a straight face when reading the words because it sounds like a job for a proctologist. Once you get by the headlines there was something new and a bit odd discovered in this planet. It is believed to be an anomaly of some sort in the southern hemisphere of the planet because of its rotation pattern.
The experts have thought for a very long time that Uranus is one of the calmest planets in the solar system, but this newest research suggests that there’s a lot more happening in Uranus that was previously thought. The pictures taken from the Voyager 2 spacecraft back in 1986 showed Uranus as a robin’s egg-blue planet and confirmed this appearance was from the gases surrounding the frozen planet.
A recent study using those 28-year-old images led to a new discovery that the planet’s southern hemisphere rotates unlike any region ever observed by scientists, according to Geek.com. There is also evidence in these pictures of clouds that stretch hundreds of miles on the planet that can whip up winds that reach over 500 mph.
University of Arizona astronomer Erich Karkoschka revisited these photos and analyzed the pictures taken in time-lapse succession. At one point he layered 1,600 images to see the changes on the face of Uranus. The unusual rotation of the southern region is indicative of an unusual feature that is most likely found with the planet’s interior. Karkoschka said in a statement that was published on phys.org:
http://www.examiner.com/article/spacecraft-images-lead-astronomer-to-discover-something-strange-inside-uranus
You might not have noticed it but the junior high student still living inside me did: "There's something strange inside Uranus?" is kind of humorous also.
My thought about Uranus is possibly a piece of the Asteroid Belt Planet when it blew up from a thermonuclear war about 65 million years ago hit Uranus and cut away some of the southern land in Uranus so it still rotates but differently now in lower latitudes.
With the headlines today blaring "Something strange is found inside Uranus" it is hard to keep a straight face when reading the words because it sounds like a job for a proctologist. Once you get by the headlines there was something new and a bit odd discovered in this planet. It is believed to be an anomaly of some sort in the southern hemisphere of the planet because of its rotation pattern.
The experts have thought for a very long time that Uranus is one of the calmest planets in the solar system, but this newest research suggests that there’s a lot more happening in Uranus that was previously thought. The pictures taken from the Voyager 2 spacecraft back in 1986 showed Uranus as a robin’s egg-blue planet and confirmed this appearance was from the gases surrounding the frozen planet.
A recent study using those 28-year-old images led to a new discovery that the planet’s southern hemisphere rotates unlike any region ever observed by scientists, according to Geek.com. There is also evidence in these pictures of clouds that stretch hundreds of miles on the planet that can whip up winds that reach over 500 mph.
University of Arizona astronomer Erich Karkoschka revisited these photos and analyzed the pictures taken in time-lapse succession. At one point he layered 1,600 images to see the changes on the face of Uranus. The unusual rotation of the southern region is indicative of an unusual feature that is most likely found with the planet’s interior. Karkoschka said in a statement that was published on phys.org:
"While the nature of the feature and its interaction with the atmosphere are not yet known, the fact that I found this unusual rotation offers new possibilities to learn about the interior of a giant planet."The giant planets in the solar system have shown through observation that they rotate in a regular way, which means southern and northern hemisphere are about the same in their rotation patterns, but that’s not the case with Uranus. Karkoschka said:
"My analysis suggests rotational rates in the high latitudes of Uranus are highly asymmetrical, with some southern latitudes possibly rotating as much as 15% faster than their northern counterparts."end quote from:
http://www.examiner.com/article/spacecraft-images-lead-astronomer-to-discover-something-strange-inside-uranus
You might not have noticed it but the junior high student still living inside me did: "There's something strange inside Uranus?" is kind of humorous also.
My thought about Uranus is possibly a piece of the Asteroid Belt Planet when it blew up from a thermonuclear war about 65 million years ago hit Uranus and cut away some of the southern land in Uranus so it still rotates but differently now in lower latitudes.
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