Soulmate Gem
Photo: George Milton
Uranus Uranus has the unfortunate reputation of being the most boring planet in the solar system.
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Read More »But the GS-37S storm had a surprise in store for the observers when they returned to their observations on July 4, 2004. Hammel and her coworkers were surprised to spot the persistent storm in the K prime filter, where no storm had been visible before. The persistent storm "punched up like a thunderstorm to a high altitude," Hammel said. To their further surprise, the storm had again disappeared from view in the K prime filter by July 9, a performance that led Hammel to refer to the event as "Fourth of July fireworks." Imke de Pater of the University of California at Berkeley worked with Hammel on the Keck observations. "We have never seen such vigorous convective activity in the southern hemisphere before," she reported. Hammel and de Pater suggested that the increased activity was due to Uranus' changing orbital geometry. Uranus is unique in the solar system for possessing a spin axis lying nearly in the ecliptic plane, which results in the most extreme seasons in the solar system. Voyager 2 flew past Uranus when the planet was near the height of southern summer; the entire southern hemisphere baked in continuous sunlight, while the north stared continuously at the blackness of space. Atmospheric scientists guessed that Uranus' featurelessness was a direct result of this geometry. The prevailing theory holds that a hood of photochemical haze covering the southern hemisphere sets up a stratified atmosphere that prevents convection. Convection, the motion of atmospheric masses that usually results from temperature gradients, sets up winds and storms on every other planet with an atmosphere, but hardly any storm activity has ever been observed at Uranus. Now, 18 years later, the picture on Uranus is quite different; spring is coming to the northern hemisphere, and the inhibitions on convection appear to be gone. Hammel speculated that the activity might be setting up a northern band of bright clouds like the southern band that has been visible to Hubble for several years. But all Hammel, de Pater, and Sromovsky could offer to explain the observed changes were speculations, because there are at present no theories for the behavior of the Uranian atmosphere that account for the patterns of wind speed and cloud development that have been observed by workers on the Keck and Hubble telescopes. "Right now our observations are outstripping our theories," Hammel said, adding that it may be a while before theories are developed. "The theorists are all busy, focusing on Saturn. Eventually they'll come back to Uranus."
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