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By Robert Roy Britt published October 09, 2002
In what is largely a reversal of an August announcement, astronomers today said Pluto is undergoing global warming in its thin atmosphere even as it moves farther from the Sun on its long, odd-shaped orbit.
Pluto's atmospheric pressure has tripled over the past 14 years, indicating a stark temperature rise, the researchers said. The change is likely a seasonal event, much as seasons on Earth change as the hemispheres alter their inclination to the Sun during the planet's annual orbit.
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Pluto is undergoing global warming, researchers find
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October 9, 2002
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Pluto is undergoing global warming, as evidenced by a three-fold increase in the planet's atmospheric pressure during the past 14 years, a team of astronomers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Williams College, the University of Hawaii, Lowell Observatory and Cornell University announced in a press conference today at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society's (AAS) Division for Planetary Sciences in Birmingham, AL.
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Elliot said the new results have surprised the observers, who as recently as July thought that Pluto's atmosphere may be cooling. "From the July data, we knew that Pluto's atmosphere had changed since 1988, but the August data allowed us to probe much more deeply into Pluto's atmosphere and have given us a more accurate picture of the changes that have occurred," he said.
Pluto's Atmosphere Found Poisonous and Surprisingly High
By Space.com Staff published April 19, 2011
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"It was thrilling to see the signal gradually emerge as we added in many nights of data," Greaves said. "The change in brightness over the last decade is startling. We think the atmosphere may have grown in size, or the carbon monoxide abundance may have been boosted."
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The atmospheric gases are likely the result of solar heating of Pluto's surface ice, which evaporates due to the slightly higher temperatures experienced during this period. In 1989 Pluto made its closest approach to the sun, which is considered a relatively recent event, considering that it takes the planet 248 years to complete one orbit around the sun.
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By Eric Hand Jul. 15, 2015 , 7:00 PM
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Radioactive elements in both bodies’ interiors could provide some of the heat needed for geological mountain building or ice flows that repave the surface. But Pluto, and especially Charon, are far too small for this heat to persist. The giant impact thought to have formed the two worlds could also provide a source of energy, but that probably happened billions of years ago.
Smooth surfaces on Pluto's moon Charon imply geological reworking in the recent past.
Geoffrey Collins, a planetary scientist at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, unaffiliated with the team, is amazed by the images. “Clearly we’re seeing internal activity on the surface of Pluto and Charon,” he says. “Something is pulling apart their ice crusts.” Collins is excited because there is no way to explain the activity with conventional models of heat loss. “If the Charon-Pluto impact happened more recently, all the problems would be solved,” he says.
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originally posted by: kwakakev
Is it possible that Pluto is growing in size as it moves around and traps all kinds of things in its gravity. With Pluto getting bigger, this is raising the pressure on the internal core of the planet and increasing the heat generated?
"What is the significance of this storm?
Normally, when you look at Saturn, it's serene and still. You don't see same swirling clouds and storms like you do in Jupiter. Since 1876, there have only been five planet-wide storms [not including this latest one]. These occurred during summertime in Saturn's northern hemisphere, which happens roughly once every 30 years. It's not a precise science, I'm afraid, because a lot of these really old observations are literally guys with telescopes who sketched, by hand, images of these storms. But we didn't expect to see any big storms until about 2020, well after Cassini will be done. That means we've been extremely lucky to see it, lucky that Cassini is still there."
"Scientists compared dunes seen on Titan with those in deserts on Earth
They say they are similar to the giant shifting dunes in the Namib Desert
Titan's dunes may be the remnants of giant methane lakes on the surface
It suggests the moon underwent climate change that evaporated the lakes"
This was also seen on Jupiter on an article published October 20, 2015, the superstorms that occurred nonstop and ever so violent have begun 'shrinking', their activity becoming less severe and even in some spots all together.
The red planet, which moved closer to the Earth on Monday than at any other time since 2005, has retreated from a glacial period that would have covered large areas in white before the thaw about 370,000 years ago, according to a study published Friday in the journal Science."
A study presented at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in December 2006 found that even a small-scale, regional nuclear war could disrupt the global climate for a decade or more. In a regional nuclear conflict scenario where two opposing nations in the subtropics would each use 50 Hiroshima-sized nuclear weapons (about 15 kilotons each) on major population centers, the researchers estimated as much as five million tons of soot would be released, which would produce a cooling of several degrees over large areas of North America and Eurasia, including most of the grain-growing regions. The cooling would last for years, and, according to the research, could be "catastrophic",[17][53] disrupting agricultural production and food gathering in particular in higher latitude countries.[54]
There are three large zoos, Nikolaev Zoo, Kyiv Zoological Park and Kharkiv Zoo, in cities currently under attack by the Russian military, which have talked about how they are currently coping. Outsiders might think the best thing to do would be to evacuate the animals into a safer environment away from the war zone. But this is an incredibly risky endeavour. In a tense and difficult environment animals may be fearful of the sounds around them. Loading highly stressed animals into crates and transporting them across noisy and complicated conflict zones could cause severe illness or death, quite apart from the danger of being hit by gunfire.
It suggests the moon underwent climate change that evaporated the lakes
The record temperatures in July have had a dramatic effect on Europe's water resources. Many lakes and rivers are at record lows, aggravating problems already caused by bad water management.
Large Hadron Collider Starts Up Again By Conway Crew July 6, 2022 The Large Hadron Collider is back up and running, after an upgrade process that lasted nearly four years. The massive, 17-mile particle accelerator was restarted on Tuesday for a new batch of experiments.
Pluto: the warming exhibited by Pluto is not really understood. Pluto’s seasons are the least understood of all: its existence has only been known for a third of its 248 -year orbit, and it has never been visited by a space probe. The ‘evidence’ for climate change consists of just two observations made in 1988 and 2002. That’s equivalent to observing the Earth’s weather for just three weeks out of the year. Various theories suggest its highly elliptical orbit may play a part, as could the large angle of its rotational axis. One recent paper suggests the length of Pluto’s orbit is a key factor, as with Neptune. Sunlight at Pluto is 900 times weaker than it is at the Earth.
Claims that solar system bodies are heating up due to increased solar activity are clearly wrong. The sun’s output has declined in recent decades. Only Pluto and Neptune are exhibiting increased brightness. Heating attributed to other solar bodies remains unproven.
Jul 14, 2015
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is at Pluto.
After a decade-long journey through our solar system, New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto Tuesday, about 7,750 miles above the surface -- roughly the same distance from New York to Mumbai, India – making it the first-ever space mission to explore a world so far from Earth.
“I’m delighted at this latest accomplishment by NASA, another first that demonstrates once again how the United States leads the world in space,” said John Holdren, assistant to the President for Science and Technology and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. “New Horizons is the latest in a long line of scientific accomplishments at NASA, including multiple missions orbiting and exploring the surface of Mars in advance of human visits still to come; the remarkable Kepler mission to identify Earth-like planets around stars other than our own; and the DSCOVR satellite that soon will be beaming back images of the whole Earth in near real-time from a vantage point a million miles away. As New Horizons completes its flyby of Pluto and continues deeper into the Kuiper Belt, NASA's multifaceted journey of discovery continues."
A Gloomy Mars Warms Up05.14.07
For the past 30 years, NASA scientists have been using high-tech satellite equipment to study features on the face of Mars. It appears a slight change in the planet’s surface luster has caused its temperature to rise.
originally posted by: Ilikesecrets
Oh goddammit! Now climate nuts have more ammunition.
originally posted by: interupt42
a reply to: ElectricUniverse
we need to raise and come up with new taxes to solve the issue and hold the Russians responsible for this . more importantly plastic straws and guns should be banned on Pluto.