Neptune has the wildest and strangest weather in the entire Solar System. It has huge storms with extremely high winds. Its atmosphere has dark spots which come and go, and bright cirrus-like clouds which change rapidly. Neptune has an average temperature of -353 Fahrenheit (-214 Celsius). On Earth sunlight drives our weather, but Neptune is so far away that it receives a thousand times less sunlight than Earth does. How Neptune gets the energy for such intense weather is still a mystery
Neptune has 14 different moons. Neptune’s largest moon is called Triton. Triton is the only large moon in the solar system to orbit in the opposite direction to its planet’s rotation, this is known as a retrograde orbit. The distance of its orbit is 354,759 km. Its orbit period takes 5.9 days (retrograde). Triton was discovered by William Lassell. Neptune has 5 rings. Neptune is very cold compared to Earth. It is -214 degrees Celsius. Neptune is the smallest of the ice giants. Despite being smaller than Uranus, Neptune has a greater mass. Below its heavy atmosphere, Uranus is made of layers of hydrogen, helium, and methane gases. They enclose a layer of water, ammonia and methane ice. The inner core of the planet is made of
There are a total of 8 planets as of 2014, because Pluto is not considered a planet. Earth is described as the planet that has a lot of energy and is said to be average out of all the other planets. When the Earth tilts, it makes the seasons change every 3-4 months. Earth is described like the planet who protects the other planets from dangerous situations. Next, there is the planet, Venus, which is described that has similar features as Earth. On the planet of Venus, it is as hot as a desert, or maybe even hotter. It has clouds covering the surface, and it also has many volcanoes unlike planet Earth. Also, Venus has many dents and holes because of meteorites and asteroids hitting the surface of it. Venus also, spins the opposite direction, and slower than all the
It is not only the weather that the air masses bring that affects the climate of the UK, but also, the complex interactions between the air masses. Most importantly, the interactions between the Polar Maritime and Tropical maritime air masses can lead to the formation of areas of significantly low pressure called depressions. These depressions usually form in the Atlantic Ocean at the boundary between PM and TM air, and bring characteristic cloudy, wet and windy conditions. These depressions are what are responsible for many of the winter storms. They are regular occurrences and so contribute to the overall pattern of weather over a long period i.e. the climate of the British Isles. The interaction between continental air masses often leads to anticyclones which are the opposite of depressions – areas of significantly high pressure. They bring settled weather, with clear skies and light winds. In the summer they can be responsible for temperatures of over 30⁰C. Many say it is the pattern of depressions and anticyclones passing over Britain that is responsible for its
So the warm moist air creates clouds of rain and thunderstorm. Adding to that winds with different speed going in different directions assisting in expanding these great clouds of rain and thunderstorm. With
Weather is the state of the atmosphere at a given time and place, with respect to variables such as temperature, moisture, wind velocity, and barometric pressure. Weather can be classified as day to day temperature and precipitation activity, where climiate is average atmospheric conditions over longer periods of time. Weather occurs from temperature and moisture differences between one place and another. These differences can occur due to the sun angle at any particular spot. The strong temperature contrast between polar and tropical air gives rise to the jet stream. Weather systems in the mid-latitudes, such as "extratropical cyclones", are caused by instabilities of the jet stream flow. Because the Earth's axis is tilted
The discovery of the Neptune planet was the result of various hypotheses, generated by different astronomers and mathematicians from 1781 to 1847. The article entitled “Accounting for Anomaly: The Discovery of Neptune” describes how Neptune was mathematically identified, before being directly observed, using the calculations of Urbain Le Verrier. He made the hypothesis that the Newtonian gravitation law could not fully explain the series of irregularities in the path of the Uranus planet. Le Verrier suggested the existence of another planet, after Uranus, that could affect its gravity. In 1845 his hypothesis followed a series of calculations to determine the nature and position of this unknown planet. By this calculations Le Verrier’s understood
Weather is created by the movement of air masses of different temperature and moisture content moving around the Earth’s atmosphere and interacting with each other.
Venus's atmosphere is made up of carbon dioxide. Nitrogen and clouds of sulfuric acid are also there. Nitrogen makes up three fourths of the atmosphere. This causes a greenhouse gas effect that heats the planet, making it even hotter than Mercury. Venus's clouds also shield the planet. Venus has wind speeds of up to 224 mph, keeping Venus's clouds in constant motion. The planet spins very slowly, only once every 243 Earth days, but the clouds circle the planet every four days. On Venus the sun's light rays usually fail to get through Venus's thick atmosphere. That means that Venus's temperature changes a lot from night to day. Venus's clouds appear to be white or yellow. That is why Venus's atmosphere and climate is the way it
Even though on Earth, Hurricane Irene was a monster storm, it is very small compared to the massive storms on other planets. Although, it is not common to hear about storms on other plants, Earth is the only planet in the solar system that has storms. Both Jupiter and Saturn can churn out spinning squalls that can be bigger than the entire Earth. Although, these storms aren't fed by warm ocean water the way terrestrial hurricanes are, they're in a lot of ways similar to storms on Earth. Jupiter and Saturn are not the only planets in our solar system that also experiences bizarre weather. Icy methane rainstorms, planet-wide sand storms, and lead-melting temperatures affect other planets and their moons.
Uranus is the eighth planet from the Sun. It is, like Jupiter, classified as a Gas Giant, but it is also what is known as an Ice Giant. Its atmosphere is mostly comprised of hydrogen, helium, and methane. A unique feature of Uranus is that the planet itself is tipped, to one side, and its axis rotation
Triton is the largest satellite that orbits the planet Neptune. The surface of Triton is riddled with cryovolcanoes that emit volatiles such as water, ammonia, or methane, instead of the molten rock that volcanoes on Earth emit. It has an atmospheric pressure of 14 μbar (1/70,000th of Earth’s surface pressure) and a gravitational constant of -0.779 m/s2. The average surface wind speeds are 5-15m/s, and the average temperature is 35 K.
Did you know that Eris is colder than Neptune? Eris is the furthest dwarf planet from the sun, and is also the most massive of the currently recognized dwarf plants. Planet Eris extends far beyond the Kuiper Belt, a zone of icy debris beyond the orbit of Neptune. Eris is so far from the sun that its atmosphere sometimes freezes due to lack of sunlight. Over the course of the hundreds of years it takes the Eris to orbit the Sun, it thaws as it gets closer to the Sun’s heat.
Titan has a continuously changing climate that resembles the climate of the early Earth and can teach us a lot of things about how life was developed on our home planet. One would expect Titan to be a frozen, dead world but in reality, it acts like a cold parallel of Earth's tropical and subtropical zones. The methane, which consists 1.4% of the atmosphere, is a lot more volatile at Titan's cold temperatures, than water is at the warmer temperatures of Earth.
Saturn's moon Titan continues to baffle NASA scientists. Recently, a team found the formation of an ice cloud appearing out of thin air on Titan. This is similar to what we see over Earth's poles. However, there's minimal explanation to this event. While the agency scrambles around for answers, others look for signs of alien life on Titan.
Neptune is the eigth and farthest planet from the sun in the solar system. What does Neptune look like? Neptunes’ color is a deep shade of blue. It has five rings that are made of ice particles coated with silicates. It also has a dark spot “the great dark spot” is a 8,000 mile long spot which is a hug area of storm activity. (mrnussahaum.com) Has the United States explored Neptune? Yes we have. Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to study and get close to the planet. Right now it is exploring the outermost regins of where the solar wind and sun’s magnetic field dominate space. In September 2007, it crossed the termination shock at 84 AU. (solarsystem.nasa.gov) What feautures have been found on Neptune? The great dark spot which is located on