#Exometeorology

[meteorologistaustenlonek]

"Testers wanted! If you've got an eye for doing CitSci, the Cloudspotting on Mars team invites you to focus it on picking out Martian cloud shapes in #NASAData. Your testing and feedback will help prepare this project for launch. Learn more" -- NASA Citizen Science @DoNASAScience

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Scientists have observed enough exoplanets to glean some intriguing insights about the cosmos. Nature, it turns out, is capable of producing all kinds of worlds. Exoplanets are tinier than Mercury and double the size of Jupiter; ice-cold and scorching hot; rocky, with some kind of surface; and gaseous, with clouds all the way down. There are planets around the star closest to our sun, just 4.2 light-years away, and planets around stars a couple thousand light-years away. Astronomers can confidently say, based on what they’ve found so far, that our Milky Way galaxy must have more planets than stars.

  —  5,000 Exoplanets, and Still Just One Earth

[meteorologistaustenlonek]

#Exometeorology

Neptune weather forecast: Intermittent clouds.

This sequence of Hubble Space Telescope images chronicles the shifting of cloud cover on Neptune. This set of observations—spanning nearly three decades—shows that the number of clouds grows following a peak in our sun’s solar cycle, when the Sun’s level of activity rhythmically rises and falls over an 11-year period.

Astronomers think that the increased ultraviolet radiation from the Sun during its peak causes chemical changes high in Neptune’s upper atmosphere and takes a couple of years to form clouds.

Credit: NASA, ESA, I. de Pater (University of California, Berkeley). Image processing: J. DePasquale (STScI).

ALT TEXT: This sequence of Hubble Space Telescope images chronicles the waxing and waning of the amount of cloud cover on Neptune. This display shows Hubble snapshots of the planet taken in the years 1994, 1998, 2000, 2002 (top row, from left to right) and 2006, 2010, 2015, 2020 (bottom row, from left to right). The planet is blue (due to methane absorption of red light in its atmosphere) and the high-altitude, cirrus-like clouds are white. A comparison of Neptune’s cloud cover corresponds to peaks in the 11-year-long repeating solar cycle where the Sun’s level of activity rhythmically rises and falls. Apparently, an increase in solar ultraviolet radiation causes chemical changes that affect Neptune’s amount of cloud cover.

[humancandy-comic]

I know a total of 30 different scientists in varying fields from Mycology, Exometeorology, Astrophysics, Hedonics, Epistemology, and more. A few quick calculations with the help of my math savvy friend, as well as a number of tests, informed me that scientists are, on average, more likely to be cute and adorable than otherwise. Given the nearly unanimous agreement of leading Paleontologists that skeletons are to be considered "Cute" and "Adorable" as opposed to humans who only have a 10% chance of being even conventionally attractive, I believe its safe to say that Cuteness displays a Homogeneity of Variance across all groups of scientists no matter the sizes of the test groups. Therefore you have a 77.143% chance of being "Cute" and an 89.2% chance of being "Adorable" according to sound scientific principles.

Gaster: WHAT ABOUT “HANDSOME”? I WANT TO BE HANDSOME.

Zewi: “Being cute” is a silly topic to talk about...

Gaster: IS ZEWI CUTE? OR IS HE HANDSOME?

[vanillacoolatta]

so anyway did you know that the study of atmosphere on planets other than earth is called exometeorology

[particlemilk-unlockable-gender]

Exometeorology honestly sounds like the coolest thing ever wow

Ay! Exometeorology is the study of any atmosphere other than the earth, especially as it pertains to weather and climate in those other places, it can also pertain to weather on the earth when we try to use simulations that can model weather behavior accurately on earth without relying on knowledge of how weather patterns typically behave in that area.

ie, attempts to predict weather based solely on sensory and not at all on prior happening can fall under exometeorology since one of the big points of the subject is the ability to predict weather/climate/atmospheric behavior of all kinds, in places we’ve never been and maybe can’t even see.

IMO it is the literal coolest possible thing I definitely did not get across how cool it is but it is my favorite scientific speciality hands down.

[meteorologistaustenlonek]

#Exometeorology

Better late than never! 

Here is the final comic for starry scholastic month, making this the 4th comic of this month. 

This topic is about storms on other planets. 

https://www.space.com/12750-extraterrestrial-hurricanes-storms-jupiter-saturn.html

[journalgen]

Review of Exometeorology and Censorship

[jellobiafrasays]

weather on the planets (1966, cover design by robert giusti)

[nivenus]

Very cool article over at io9 about how astronomers have managed to compile the first ever weather map of a brown dwarf, aka a failed star.

[meteorologistaustenlonek]

Maybe this'll cool you off a bit: Today's latest #exometeorology report from the #4thRockFromTheSun via the #PerseveranceRover in #JezeroCrater: high temperature of +1F, low of -106F.

[thenewenlightenmentage]

Astronomers Map the Extreme Weather of a Distant Hot Jupiter

An emerging branch of science known as exometeorology is offering remarkable insights into the conditions found on some of the more extreme planets in the galaxy — including the weird and mind-boggingly massive weather patterns experienced on a hot Jupiter that's 385 light years from Earth.

Hot Jupiters are those exotic class of extrasolar planets that are very similar in size and composition to Jupiter — but these massive gas giants orbit around their parent stars at ridiculously close distances. They’re located anywhere from 0.015 to 0.5 AU from their suns (1 AU = distance from Earth to the Sun).

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The Earth-like Mars “Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.” “A Dream Within a Dream” (1849) by Edgar Allan Poe Mars – a distant, extraterrestrial world, but it shares some surprising similarities with Earth. The rotation period is almost the same with 24 hours, 39 minutes and 21,67 seconds (as measured by astronomer William Herschel in 1777-1783), the planet possess an atmosphere and the surface shows periodic changes during a sequence of seasons. First drawings of the Martian surface appeared in 1638, made by the Italian astronomer Francesco Fontana, and in 1645 the Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens produced the first “scientifically accurate” map, showing, so he believed, the large “hour glass”-ocean (today known as Syrtis Major, the southern highlands of Mars). In 1672 the Italian astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625-1712) noted on the South Pole a white patch and in 1704/1719 a nephew of Cassini, Giacomo Filippo Maraldi (1665-1729), discovered also on the North Pole such a patch. It was William Herschel who suggested that these were polar ice caps and the extent of the glaciers varied during the Martian seasons. The melting polar ice caps suggested also that there was liquid water on Mars. read more...

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Latest weather report from Jezero Crater, Mars, courtesy Perseverance Rover. https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mission/weather/

[meteorologistaustenlonek]

Vote in our #WeatherQuestion of the Day at wdef.com/votenow. Polls will be open until @WDEFNews12 #PrimeNewsAt7

[meteorologistaustenlonek]

Exometeorology is the study of weather on other solar system bodies (moons, planets, etc.) Latest report from the #CuriosityRover in #GaleCrater in the southern hemisphere of #Mars.