Neptune Is Hiding Something Scientists Can’t Explain
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Neptune should be a dark, frozen world, yet it produces enormous internal heat, drives some of the fastest winds in the Solar System and creates auroras far from its geographic poles because of its strangely tilted magnetic field. From Voyager 2’s disappearing Great Dark Spot to the James Webb Space Telescope’s first direct images of Neptune’s mid-latitude auroras, every new observation makes this distant ice giant more mysterious. Discover what may be hiding beneath Neptune’s blue clouds—and why its storms, cooling atmosphere and internal energy continue to challenge planetary scientists. #Neptune #JamesWebb #SolarSystem Credit: Hubble Space Telescope Flies: by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center from Greenbelt, MD, USA CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hubble_Space_Telescope_Flies.ogv Why Is Neptune Glowing Like This?: by NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio - X3M Systems/Thaddeus Cesari, eMITS/Paul Morris, ADNET
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