Something strange is happening on Neptune: Researchers have found surprising swings in the planet's temperatures which they can't explain.
Something strange is happening on Neptune. Researchers have studied 17 years of data from the planet, collected using telescopes including the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, the Gemini South and North telescopes, the Subaru Telescope, and the Keck Telescope. And they’ve found surprising swings in the planet’s temperatures which they can’t explain.
“Our data cover less than half of a Neptune season, so no one was expecting to see large and rapid changes,” said co-author Glenn Orton, senior research scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in a statement. “This change was unexpected,” said lead author of the study, Michael Roman of the University of Leicester, U.K. “Since we have been observing Neptune during its early southern summer, we expected temperatures to be slowly growing warmer, not colder.”
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