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Never seen before! NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reveals why Saturn’s atmosphere is warming


Earth’s temperature is rising mainly due to global warming. But, we cannot say the same for the other planets in our solar system. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has found the cause behind the warming of Saturn’s atmosphere. That’s because of the planet’s own rings. Notice of the same thing NASA said in a statement“The secret has been hidden in plain sight for 40 years. But one veteran astronomer had the insight to put it all together within a year, using observations. about Saturn from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the retired Cassini probe, in addition to the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft and the retired International Ultraviolet Exploration mission.”

It added, “Discovery: Saturn’s vast ring system is heating the giant planet’s upper atmosphere. A phenomenon never seen before in solar system. It’s an unexpected interaction between Saturn and its rings that could potentially provide a tool for predicting whether planets around other stars also have brilliant ring systems like this one. Saturn or not.”

The clear evidence is an excess of ultraviolet radiation, seen as a spectral line of hot hydrogen in Saturn’s atmosphere. A collision in radiation means that something is polluting and heating the upper atmosphere from the outside, WE The space agency explained.

The most likely explanation is that icy rings falling into Saturn’s atmosphere cause this warming. This could be due to the impact of meteorite micrometers, the particle bombardment of the solar wind, the sun’s ultraviolet radiation, or the electromagnetic force that attracts charged dust. All this happens under the influence of Saturn’s gravitational field pulling particles into the planet.

When NASA’s Cassini probe plunged into Saturn’s atmosphere at the end of its mission in 2017, it measured atmospheric composition and confirmed that many particles were falling from the rings.

“Although the slow decay of the rings is well known, its effect on the planet’s hydrogen atom is surprising. From the Cassini probe, we learned about the influence of the planet’s hydrogen atoms. the belts. However, we already know Nothing on atomic hydrogen content,” said Lotfi Ben-Jaffel of the Institute of Astrophysics in Paris and the Laboratory of the Moon & Planets, University of Arizona, author of a paper published in the Journal of Planetary Science on Dec. March 30.

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