Other occurances of Storms on Planets outside of the Prime Inner Planets.
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A telescope on Earth has spotted huge storms brewing on the planet Uranus.
Scientists using the Keck Observatory in Hawaii have recently seen a number of storms develop on the planet. One image, taken on Aug. 5, shows a few bright spots in infrared photos taken of the planet. The bright bits show storms in the planet's atmosphere. A second photo of Uranus, taken on Aug. 6, reveals more bright spots.
One very large storm seen by the telescope has particularly interested researchers analyzing the views of Uranus. The storm reaches into the high altitudes of the planet's atmosphere, according to Keck representatives. [Photos: Biggest Storms in the Solar System]
"We are always anxious to see that first image of the night of any planet or satellite, as we never know what it might have in store for us," Imke de Pater, professor at UC Berkeley and team leader, said in a statement. "This extremely bright feature we saw on UT 6 August 2014 reminds me of a similarly bright storm we saw on Uranus’s southern hemisphere during the years leading up to and at equinox."
The new storm is reminiscent of a feature known as the "Berg," which disappeared in 2009, but could even have dated back to NASA's Voyager probe's flyby of the planet in 1986, according to Keck. The Berg — so named because the storm looked like an iceberg sloughing off an ice shelf — became very bright in 2004 and started to move toward the planet's equator in 2005.
The new storm feature spotted by Keck is brighter than the Berg, according to Keck representatives, and it also looks similar. Scientists think that a vortex deeper in the atmosphere of Uranus might be associated with the bright spot.
Researchers will analyze data to measure exactly where it is located within the planet's atmosphere.
"Even after years of observing, a new picture of Uranus from Keck Observatory can stop me in my tracks and make me say Wow!" Heidi Hammel, a member of the observing team, said in the same statement.
Storms rage all across the solar system. At one point, Jupiter's Great Red Spot was once the size of three Earths, and a massive storm rages in Saturn's north pole.
Amateur astronomers on Earth can also spot Uranus in the night sky this month. The seventh planet from the sun rises in the late evening and can be seen in the constellation Pisces in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Conclusions: These storms are more sporadic, less like a spiral and more celluar in nature. They lack a central oculus or a discernable rotation.
2.) Saturn
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When a storm springs up on Saturn they are unimpeded and the storm spans the entire circle of the globe before it disperses. Saturn Storms can be sudden but do have a rotation, but lack a strong central Oculus.
3.) Neptune
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).
Neptune is the most distant planet from the Sun, with temperatures that plunge down to 55 Kelvin, or -218 degrees Celsius. You would think that a planet that cold would be frozen and locked down, with very little weather. But you’d be very wrong. In fact, the weather on Neptune is some of the most violent weather in the Solar System.
Just like Jupiter and Saturn, Neptune has bands of storms that circle the planet. While the wind speeds on Jupiter can reach 550 km/hour – twice the speed of powerful hurricanes on Earth, that’s nothing compared to Neptune. Astronomers have clocked winds on Neptune traveling at 2,100 km/hour.
So why can the winds on Neptune reach such huge speeds? Astronomers think that the cold temperatures on Neptune might have something to do with that after all. The cold temperatures might decrease the friction in the system, so that winds can get going fast on Neptune.
During its 1989 flyby, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft discovered the Great Dark Spot on Neptune. Similar to Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, this is an anti-cyclonic storm measuring 13,000 km x 6,600 km across. A few years later, however, the Hubble Space Telescope failed to see the Great Dark Spot, but it did see different storms. This might mean that storms on Neptune don’t last as long as they do on Jupiter or even Saturn.
The more active weather on Neptune might be due, in part, to its higher internal heat. Although Neptune is much more distant than Uranus from the Sun, receiving 40% less sunlight, temperatures on the surface of the two planets are roughly similar. In fact, Neptune radiates 2.61 times as much energy as it receives from the Sun. This is enough heat to help drive the fastest winds in the Solar System.
Conclusions: Neptune and Amphirite had children, you will note that Amphirite is the Sea Goddess depicted in the famous Venus Di Milo. It is plausible that the three major Gas Giant Planets Saturn, Neptune, and Jupiter are all named for famous powerful gods. But Jupiter and Neptune are both very turbulent inhospitable celestial bodies. Neptune is even less friendly to life, with high winds and absurdly sub zero temperatures. Nothing could survive this Godly beasts cold.
4. Venus
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Elements of a giant cyclone circling above the south pole of Venus constantly break apart and re-form, according to new research. Scientists studying observations of the planet taken over the last six years have concluded that the long-lived storm is constantly evolving, raising even more questions about the unusual weather formation.
A storm on the move
When the European Space Agency's Venus Express satellite arrived at the hot planet in April 2006, it observed a cyclonelike structure above Venus' south pole, four times as large as similar storms on Earth. Over the past six years, the spacecraft has collected daily observations about the storm, which resembles one spotted over Venus' north pole by NASA's Pioneer Venus spacecraft in 1979.
"Both vortices are probably permanent features in the atmosphere of Venus," planetary scientist Itziar Garate-Lopez, of the University of the Basque Country in Spain, told SPACE.com by email.
Using the observations taken by Venus Express, Garate-Lopez and her team concluded that the giant storm is in constant flux. Elements of the vortex are constantly breaking apart and reforming as it circles every 2.2 days. [Amazing Venus Photos by ESA's Venus Express]
"The vortex is never destroyed, but it evolves continuously between morphologies" or shapes, Garate-Lopez said.
The cause for the constant evolution remains a puzzle that the team still hopes to solve.
Using the spacecraft's Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer (VIRTIS), the scientists probed the upper and lower layers of the planet's atmosphere. They concluded that the two centers of rotation of the 12-mile-high (20 kilometers) storm, which exist at different altitudes, rarely line up, a surprising find.
"Even if the small-scale structures are different at both altitude levels, the overall morphology of the vortex is conserved, so we thought that the vortex should move as one large-scale feature in the same way in both vertical layers," Garate-Lopez said. "However, this is not the case."
The constantly shifting centers create what Garate-Lopez calls a "twisted tube" in the vortex.
Although VIRTIS can observe the upper and lower layers of the atmosphere, the middle section remains hidden, keeping the team from more fully understanding the off-kilter movement.
Venus spins slowly on its axis, taking 243 Earth-days for the sun to rise and set once. But Venus' atmosphere moves significantly faster, circling the planet once every four Earth days.
"The main unsolved question about the atmosphere of Venus is precisely the reason why it super-rotates much faster than the solid planet," Garate-Lopez said.
The relationship between the oddly moving atmosphere and the vortices also remains a mystery.
The cyclone sits 26 miles (42 km) above the surface of the planet. No rain falls from the towering storm, because the planet's atmosphere evaporates all particles within 22 miles (35 km) of the ground. Winds are also inconsequential far beneath the storm.
"If we were at Venus' south pole, we may observe a permanent whirl of clouds high above our heads, with no consequences at the surface," Garate-Lopez said.
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