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A proposal that diamonds may also form in Jupiter and Saturn, where the concentration of carbon is far lower, was considered unlikely because the diamonds would quickly dissolve. [16] Experiments looking for conversion of methane to diamonds found weak signals and did not reach the temperatures and pressures expected in Uranus and Neptune.
A storm formation analogous to Jupiter's Great Red Spot, the Great White Spot, is a short-lived phenomenon that forms with a roughly 30-year periodicity. It was last observed in 1990. However, the storms and the band pattern are less visible and active than those of Jupiter, due to the overlying ammonia hazes in Saturn's troposphere.
The composition of Jupiter's atmosphere is similar to that of the planet as a whole. [1] Jupiter's atmosphere is the most comprehensively understood of those of all the giant planets because it was observed directly by the Galileo atmospheric probe when it entered the Jovian atmosphere on December 7, 1995. [28]
Scientists have finally discovered how sheets of diamond rain form on the ice giants, Neptune and Uranus. The answer could explain why Neptune’s core is hot. On Neptune and Uranus, Diamonds Rain ...
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In science class, we always learned that all the planets in our solar system orbit around the sun. Scientists have figured out this is not necessarily true.
Donato Creti's 1711 painting "Jupiter", the first depiction of the Great Red Spot as red A sketch of Jupiter made by Thomas Gwyn Elger in November 1881, showing the Great Red Spot The Great Red Spot may have existed before 1665, but it could be that the present spot was first seen only in 1830, and was well studied only after a prominent ...
Planetary oceanography, also called astro-oceanography or exo-oceanography, [1] is the study of oceans on planets and moons other than Earth.Unlike other planetary sciences like astrobiology, astrochemistry, and planetary geology, it only began after the discovery of underground oceans in Saturn's moon Titan [2] and Jupiter's moon Europa. [3]