{"id":143177,"date":"2020-12-28T21:40:46","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T18:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/neptunes-mysterious-dark-spot-has-reversed-course\/"},"modified":"2020-12-28T21:40:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T18:40:46","slug":"neptunes-mysterious-dark-spot-has-reversed-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/neptunes-mysterious-dark-spot-has-reversed-course\/","title":{"rendered":"#Neptune\u2019s mysterious dark spot has reversed course"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Neptune\u2019s mysterious dark spot has reversed course<\/strong>”
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A massive dark storm on\u00a0Neptune\u00a0that was first spotted two years ago has suddenly changed directions, leaving experts without answers.<\/p>\n

The storm was discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2018, where it was seen\u00a0on the planet\u2019s Northern Hemisphere. In 2019, it was seen moving toward\u00a0the planet\u2019s Southern Hemisphere, but in August 2020, it started moving back north again, unlike other dark spots that have been spotted on the ice giant in the past. Another smaller, dark spot was also seen, believed to be a part of the larger storm that broke off into a separate storm.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are excited about these observations because this smaller dark fragment is potentially part of the dark spot\u2019s disruption process,\u201d Michael H. Wong of the University of California at Berkeley\u00a0said in a\u00a0statement<\/a>. \u201cThis is a process that\u2019s never been observed. We have seen some other dark spots fading away and they\u2019re gone, but we\u2019ve never seen anything disrupt, even though it\u2019s predicted in computer simulations.\u201d<\/p>\n

NASA first flew by Neptune in 1989\u00a0with<\/a>\u00a0the Voyager 2 spacecraft and took pictures of two dark spots.\u00a0It wasn\u2019t until 1994 that it was observed on a regular basis by the Hubble. Since then, the space telescope has looked at the \u201cGreat Dark Spot\u201d as well as other dark spots on the planet.<\/p>\n

The dark storm\u00a0in question is believed to be 4,600 miles across and is the fourth observed on Neptune since 1993. Unlike hurricanes on Earth, which are low-pressure and spin counterclockwise, these storms rotate clockwise and are high-pressure systems. But as they move toward\u00a0the equator, they\u2019re impacted by the Coriolis effect, which weakens them, ultimately disintegrating after it reaches a so-called \u201ckill zone.\u201d This particular storm did not.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was really exciting to see this one act like it\u2019s supposed to act and then all of a sudden it just stops and swings back,\u201d Wong said. \u201cThat was surprising.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wang believed the smaller storm, albeit one that is 3,900 miles across, was the result of the larger storm being disrupted, but that isn\u2019t the case, adding intrigue to what\u2019s causing it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t think another vortex was forming because the small one is farther towards the equator,\u201d the researcher explained. \u201cSo it\u2019s within this unstable region. But we can\u2019t prove the two are related. It remains a complete mystery.\u201d<\/p>\n

Neptune is\u00a0still\u00a0relatively unexplored, as is Uranus, even with the Voyager 2 snapp<\/a>ing photos of both planets in\u00a01986<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a01989<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In August, researchers\u00a0developed<\/a>\u00a0computer models that suggest both planets\u00a0are composed \u201cprimarily\u201d of a strange form of water.<\/p>\n

In March 2019, scientists at NASA JPL\u00a0proposed a mission<\/a>\u00a0that would explore Neptune\u2019s largest moon, Triton, which some have theorized could have an ocean hidden beneath the\u00a0surface.\n <\/div>\n

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“#Neptune\u2019s mysterious dark spot has reversed course” A massive dark storm on\u00a0Neptune\u00a0that was first spotted two years ago has suddenly changed directions, leaving experts without answers. The storm was discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2018, where it was seen\u00a0on the planet\u2019s Northern Hemisphere. In 2019, it was seen moving toward\u00a0the planet\u2019s Southern Hemisphere,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/neptune-34.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[87956,5018,5026,67907,5019],"class_list":["post-143177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-12-28-20","tag-hubble-space-telescope","tag-nasa","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}