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Something Is Echoeing Deep Within The Uranus!

November 13, 2014 By June Harris

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Uranus is among the pitch-dark places in our Solar System that makes it hard to spot from Earth. Researchers have caught the gas giant illuminating as inexplicable storms ripped away its atmospheric cover.

While using W. M. Keck II Telescope on Hawaii, researchers first observed the planet’s strange manifestation on 5th and 6th of August: a vibrant place made an appearance that’s paid for 30% of the light usually reflected through the gas giant. They believed the images demonstrated an enormous storm interfering with the upper atmosphere of the planet.

Heidi Hammel, co-investigator of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy said, “Such kind of activity could have been expected in 2007, when Uranus’s once every 42-year equinox happened and also the Sun shined on the equator.”

“However, we anticipated that this kind of activity might have died down right now. Why we have seen these implausible storms now is beyond anybody’s speculation.”

Expert astronomers were not the only ones looking into Uranus: enthusiasts could place new particulars which were skipped by Keck’s imagers. Régis P-Bénedictis, a French amateur astronomer who captured pics of the storms way back in September which were supported by images from his compatriot Marc Delcroix.

Delcroix, who works with a car-parts supplier in Toulouse during the day, continues to be searching skywards, for the last eight years, as well as on a trip to the close by Pic du Midi telescope, he handled to obtain Uranus photos.

“I captured the feature if this was transiting, and that i think, ‘Yes, I first got it!’” he stated. “I had been thrilled to determine such activity on Uranus. Getting particulars on Mars, Jupiter or Saturn, has become routine, but observing the particulars on Uranus and Neptune would be the new frontiers for all of us amateurs and I didn’t wish to miss that.”

“I feel so proud to authenticate myself that these first amateur images of the vibrant storm on Uranus, feeling I had been living a really unique moment for planetary amateur astronomy.”

Another group of images divulges the deep planet’s atmosphere. The outcomes demonstrated the storms should be developing within the uppermost cloud layer of methane-ice in Uranus’s atmosphere, and assisted induce the operators of the Hubble Space Telescope to get a look too.

The pictures captured by Hubble were amazing, we are told, and can turn over most of the existing presumptions by what happens inside Uranus. The telescope demonstrated that the glow was triggered by multiple storm fronts spread over greater than 9,000 kilometers (5,760 miles) and also at a number of altitudes.

Sromovsky, a planetary scientist at the University of Wisconsin said, “The cloud complex’s colors and morphology indicate that the storm might be associated with a vortex within the much deeper atmosphere much like two large cloud complexes seen throughout the equinox.”

“If these features are high-altitude clouds produced by flow perturbations connected having a much deeper vortex system, such drastic fluctuations in intensity would certainly be possible. These unpredicted findings help remind us acutely of how slight we know about atmospheric dynamics in outer planet atmospheres.”

Study concerning the entire findings of Uranus has been presented in a meeting of the American Astronomical Society’s Division for Planetary Sciences in Tucson, Arizona, on Wednesday.

Filed Under: Science Tagged With: American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences, arizona, Astronomy, Boffins, deep, Echoeing, equinox, hawaii, Heidi Hammel, Hubble Telescope, Jupiter, Marc Delcroix, mars, Neptune, Pic du Midi telescope, Régis P-Bénedictis, saturn, Sromovsky, Uranus, W. M. Keck II Telescope

Thousands of Underwater Volcanoes Discovered in Novel Map of Ocean Floor

October 4, 2014 By June Harris

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Scientists have developed a novel map of the entire world’s seafloor, displaying a brighter image of the compositions that actually formed the deepest, least-explored parts of the seafloor.

The researchers claimed that, the success was based on accessing two-intact streams of satellite data.

The recent map shows hundreds of deep, unexplored mountains that are growing from the seafloor, also known as seamounts. These seamounts are eventually appeared in the map, along with the novel hints of continents formation. The scientists have merged the existing data with the enhanced remote sensing instruments, which helps them to explore ocean expanding centers and small studies remote ocean basins.

Meanwhile, the researchers mapped the earthquakes too and found that the seamounts and the earthquakes are connected in one way or the other. These seamounts are once volcanoes and that is why researchers generally discovered nearby tectonically active plate boundaries, mid-ocean ridges and sub-ducting zones.

The researchers from California’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) stated that, the novel map is as authentic as the previous one developed 20 years ago,

Don Rice, program director in the National Science Foundation’s Division of Ocean Sciences, which funded the research, said that, “the team of researched have developed a powerful tool in order to explore the regional seafloor and geophysical processes.”

The map, which was developed by using a scientific model in order to capture the gravity measurements of the ocean seafloor, also extracts data from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) CryoSat-2 satellite.

David Sandwell, lead author of the paper and geophysicist at SIO stated that, “Things you could see very clearly are the most common land-form on the planet, named as abyssal hills.”

Furthermore the researchers said that, the map offers a window within the tectonics of deep oceans. Alternatively, this map also offers a base for the upcoming Google’s ocean maps version. Researchers believed that it would cover large voids between shipboard depth profiles.

In earlier times, undetected features include newly exposed continental connections across South America and Africa and new evidence for seafloor spreading ridges in the Gulf of Mexico. The ridges were active 150mn years ago and are now buried by mile-thick layers of dregs.

The study was published in the ‘Science’ journal.

Filed Under: Science Tagged With: California's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, CryoSat-2 satellite, deep, discovered volcaneos, esa, European Space Agency, High-resolution map, map, seafloor, seamount, SIO, undersea, underwater, volcaneos

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