[HN Gopher] ESO telescope captures surprising changes in Neptune... ___________________________________________________________________ ESO telescope captures surprising changes in Neptune's temperatures Author : rgrieselhuber Score : 43 points Date : 2022-04-12 14:39 UTC (8 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.eso.org) (TXT) w3m dump (www.eso.org) | makerofspoons wrote: | I wish we had built a bunch of Cassinis- one for each gas giant. | There's so much about the outermost planets we don't know. | Voyager missed the weather changes as Uranus and Neptune changed | seasons- a flyby just isn't enough! | NegativeLatency wrote: | Why stop there, sample returns from all the planets! | pkaye wrote: | The Juno spacecraft is orbiting Jupiter right now. I think the | mission got extended for another couple years. | krylon wrote: | I said it before, and I'll gladly say it again: Yes! I would | _so_ love for _someone_ to send some probes for long-term | observation of Uranus and Neptune. | | To be fair, I get the impression that no matter where we look | in our solar system, we discover heaps of unexpected stuff, and | it's all fascinating. But compared to Jupiter and Saturn, we | still know fairly little about Uranus and Neptune. :-( | | Sadly, I think it's rather unlikely this will change anytime | soon, but a person can dream... | h2odragon wrote: | Somebody lit its fuse. We're gonna have a second sun for a while. | The nightlight industry will be devastated. | | If it catches, of course. You know how it is, tho; the wind blows | wrong or whatever and you have to try lighting it again and again | until finally you pour a gallon of gasoline on it and toss a lit | road flare in. | hulitu wrote: | We shall do something before it is too late. | sudden_dystopia wrote: | throw82473751 wrote: | Could you please read the whole article, maybe also some | general literature about Neptune and Earth from some other | allknowing x-ogists, and then reread what you just postulated | here? Please? | misnome wrote: | Clearly the only causes for a changing climate are entirely | man-made or entirely natural. No inbetween, no siree. | | Unless you actually meant weather, your post is a little | confusing. | | Anyhow, let's just continue pumping whatever we want into the | planet just in case it's entirely natural and impossible for us | to make a difference - wouldn't want to get in the way of | making money. | MattPalmer1086 wrote: | Weather prediction is a different problem to climate. If I run | a hot bubble bath, I can't tell you where all the bubbles will | be, but I can tell you it will be getting hotter and fuller. | The_rationalist wrote: ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-04-12 23:01 UTC)