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20 Jan 2012
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cwnl: Forecasting Weather on Distant Worlds Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC) An artist’s conception shows a gas-giant planet orbiting very close to its parent star, creating searingly hot conditions on the planet’s surface. Research suggests that for three such planets lying from 50 to 150 light-years from Earth, strong winds thousands of miles per hour mix the atmosphere so that the temperature is relatively uniform from the permanently light side to the permanently dark side.

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Forecasting Weather on Distant Worlds

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC)

An artist’s conception shows a gas-giant planet orbiting very close to its parent star, creating searingly hot conditions on the planet’s surface.

Research suggests that for three such planets lying from 50 to 150 light-years from Earth, strong winds thousands of miles per hour mix the atmosphere so that the temperature is relatively uniform from the permanently light side to the permanently dark side.

(Source: ikenbot)

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    We can hardly predict the weather here, how can we expect ourselves to be able to do it from 150 light-years away? Just...
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    gas giants don’t really have surfaces but okay
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