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Summer on Neptune

Posted by michael on from the partly-cloudy dept.

Martian-mooncat writes "According to New Scientist Neptune is now entering a 40-year summer. The report says that cloud cover changes show Neptune has its own seasons, despite being 4.5 billion miles from the Sun. There are some pretty Hubble pics too!"

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  1. Selling tickets by KDan · · Score: 3, Funny

    Selling tickets for a 40-year holiday with guaranteed permanent sun-tan!!!

    Daniel

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  2. Cold one, eh? by Sherloqq · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hmm... Summer on a planet 4.5 billion miles from the Sun... ... The planet's average surface temperature is thought to be about -218 C ... Wow... almost as bad as Canadian summers :)

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  3. Summer on Neptune has got nothing over� by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...fall on Uranus.

    That's something to write home about!

  4. Only in the south by meiocyte · · Score: 2, Funny

    >Researchers from Wisconsin-Madison University and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory found that Neptune's southern cloud bands have been getting steadily wider and brighter over the past six years.

    I take this to mean that it's only beginning summer in the southern hemisphere. Make sure to take this into account when you're selecting your vacation package.

    Hmm. Slow news day, I guess.

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