Archive for January, 2009
Fun for the whole family
Sorry to deprive you of Treatloaves the past several days. I’ve been busy trying to figure out how to convert Twitters into Tweeters. Twick or Tweet.
Meat Battery
It’s a two-for-one special today, since you didn’t get your fix yesterday. Oh, and Treatloaf readers really, really, really want to go to Uranus. Like the other gas planets, Uranus has bands of clouds that blow around rapidly. But they are extremely faint, visible only with radical image enhancement of the Voyager 2 pictures (right). Recent observations with HST (left) show larger and more pronounced streaks. Further HST observations show even more activity. Uranus is no longer the bland boring planet that Voyager saw! It now seems clear that the differences are due to seasonal effects since the Sun is now at a lower Uranian latitude which may cause more pronounced day/night weather effects. By 2007 the Sun will be directly over Uranus’s equator.