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A storm is whirling atop Uranus

Strongly flowing winds are detected inside a bright spot at the giant planet’s north pole.
Hubble Space Telescope image of Uranus, showing a vast bright stormy cloud cap across the planet’s north pole.

Bright clouds shroud Uranus's north pole. Credit: NASA, ESA, AND A. SIMON (NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER), AND M. WONG AND A. HSU (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY)/SPL

There’s a cyclone raging at the north pole of Uranus1.

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Nature 618, 217 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-01767-7

References

  1. Akins, A. et al. Geophys. Res. Lett. 50, e2023GL102872 (2023).

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