Uranus is a planet that has always been full of mysticism and controversy for astronomers. Its remote location and its distant permanent transit in our Solar System have always been the subject of interest to the scientific community, including the POTwho just photographed a rare polar cyclone.
The Space Agency has published the most recent findings around this planet where a phenomenon is detected that is somewhat atypical for our neighboring stars but which in theory could be more recurrent for formations at that end of the system.
What is memorable and striking here is that NASA has managed to capture a series of images, photographs, technically, where it captures and verifies the existence of these polar cyclones. Although the sharpness, resolution and tonalities may not be conventional.
Uranus is the seventh planet in our Solar System, it is located right between Saturn and Neptune, which has triggered on more than one occasion in the past that sometimes it does not receive as much attention from the general scientific community, although it has its devoted “fans”. dedicated to his permanent study. Because of this, not long ago the space agency published some other interesting findings.
It is a gaseous planet and thanks to this it has a bluish hue, courtesy of all the methane gas that runs through the surface of the star. Its internal density is not considerable and this list of factors would have been crucial for the phenomenon shared here today.
This is what the polar cyclone of Uranus looks like according to thermal photographs captured by NASA
According to colleagues from foxnewsa group of NASA researchers has detected the first documented cyclone on Uranus, but it would not be a common cyclone, but rather a polar type, which occurred precisely at the north pole of the planet.
For a long time, the scientific community dedicated to the study of this star had conceived the theory that this type of climatic phenomenon existed on the planet. But it is until now that they have been able to photograph it to verify its existence:
In the most recent edition of Advancing Earth And Space Science An article has been published detailing in greater depth how this finding was reached. Thanks to a series of remote photographs with microwave technology, where the presence and impact of this polar cyclone can be appreciated.
The images, captured by means of a radio telescope of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, are thermal and verify the temperature variations, being warmer at the North Pole and verifying between it and the image of its waves the existence of the phenomenon.
The documented cyclone was of great magnitude and will serve as an interesting background for the scientific community.