Solar System Warming?
The Bear on Mar 12 2007 at 8:26 am | Filed under: Global Warming
Global warming on Neptune’s moon Triton as well as Jupiter and Pluto, and now Mars has some scratching their heads over what could possibly be in common with the warming of all these planets.
In the meantime, some have noticed an interesting relationship between solar activity and temperature proxies via ice cores going back thousands of years:
Hat Tip to The Strata-Sphere Blog
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MIT researcher finds evidence of global warming on Neptune’s largest moon
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — We’re not the only ones experiencing global warming. A Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher has reported that observations obtained by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based instruments reveal that Neptune’s largest moon, Triton, seems to have heated up significantly since the Voyager space probe visited it in 1989. The warming trend is causing part of Triton’s surface of frozen nitrogen to turn into gas, thus making its thin atmosphere denser.
New storm on Jupiter hints at climate change
A storm is brewing half a billion miles away and in a rare event, astronomers get to watch it closely.
Jupiter is growing a new red spot and the Hubble Space Telescope is photographing the scene. Backyard astronomers have been following the action, too.
“Red Spot Jr.” as it is being called, formed after three white oval-shaped storms—two of which were at least 90 years old—merged between 1998 and 2000.
A similar merger took place centuries ago and formed the bigger and legendary Great Red Spot, a storm twice as big as Earth and almost 300 years old.
Global Warming on Pluto Puzzles Scientists
In what is largely a reversal of an August announcement, astronomers today said Pluto is undergoing global warming in its thin atmosphere even as it moves farther from the Sun on its long, odd-shaped orbit.
Pluto’s atmospheric pressure has tripled over the past 14 years, indicating a stark temperature rise, the researchers said. The change is likely a seasonal event, much as seasons on Earth change as the hemispheres alter their inclination to the Sun during the planet’s annual orbit.
They suspect the average surface temperature increased about 3.5 degrees Fahrenheit, or slightly less than 2 degrees Celsius.
SideBear: Time to send Al ‘Carbon Credits’ Gore on a mission to check out Pluto’s Global Warming which should be paid for by our friends at The United Nations. Estimated time 20 years round trip.
Global warming, Neptune’s moon Triton, Jupiter, Pluto, Mars, climate changes, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, Voyager space probe
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