What is belt zone circulation?
What is belt zone circulation?
Belt-zone circulation is the atmospheric circulation, which results in the formation of zones and belts on Jovian planets. The lighter colored bands are called zones, and the darker colored bands are called belts.
Why didn’t ancient astronomers know of Uranus’s existence?
Why didn’t ancient astronomers know of Uranus’s existence? Uranus moves very slowly and is relatively faint. Cloud layers that form belts and zones lie deep in the atmosphere of Uranus and can’t be seen through the overlying atmosphere.
What is the evidence for the origin of the rings of Uranus?
What is the origin of the rings of Uranus? They are made of debris from impacts on Uranus’s moons. What is the evidence for the origin of the rings of Uranus? Uranus’s rings are trapped among the orbits of small moons and Uranus’s moons show evidence of having been impacted.
Why Uranus and Neptune do not contain liquid metallic hydrogen?
These two planets do not have enough hydrogen, or sufficient mass and internal pressure, to squeeze the hydrogen into a metallic state. So there is no internal shell of liquid metallic hydrogen inside Uranus and Neptune. Like the Earth, Jupiter and Saturn, both Uranus and Neptune have strong magnetic fields.
Is metallic hydrogen stable?
The much more important consideration is that metallic hydrogen may prove to be stable (although its state will, of course, be metastable) even under zero or comparatively low pressure. It is possible, however, that the liquid state can exist at pressures exceeding the equilibrium pressure.
Which planet has a density that would allow it to float in water?
Saturn
What is the densest planet in the universe?
Earth
What planet has the highest density?
Why is Mars density so low?
The gravity of Mars is a natural phenomenon, due to the law of gravity, or gravitation, by which all things with mass around the planet Mars are brought towards it. It is weaker than Earth’s gravity due to the planet’s smaller mass.
What is the least dense planet?
What’s the next planet after Earth?
The order of the planets in the solar system, starting nearest the sun and working outward is the following: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and then the possible Planet Nine. If you insist on including Pluto, it would come after Neptune on the list.
Which planet is tipped on its side nearly 90 degrees?
Uranus
What planet has the strongest winds?
Neptune
Which planet has the best weather?
Venus has some of the coolest weather of any planet! On the surface, the planet roasts at more than 450 degrees under a suffocating blanket of acid clouds and a crushing atmosphere more than 90 times the pressure of Earth’s.
What planet has the worst weather?
You would think that a planet that cold would be frozen and locked down, with very little weather. But you’d be very wrong. In fact, the weather on Neptune is some of the most violent weather in the Solar System. Just like Jupiter and Saturn, Neptune has bands of storms that circle the planet.