Great picture, and the posts on world affairs are good too. This week's issue of NATURE reports that old theories of Saturn's heat are lacking. Saturn radiates 2.8 times as much heat as it receives from the Sun. "This unexplained energy crisis represents a major gap in our understanding of these planet's atmospheres," the authors write, "we need to re-examine our basic assumptions about planetary atmospheres and what causes the observed heating."
Great picture, and the posts on world affairs are good too. This week's issue of NATURE reports that old theories of Saturn's heat are lacking. Saturn radiates 2.8 times as much heat as it receives from the Sun. "This unexplained energy crisis represents a major gap in our understanding of these planet's atmospheres," the authors write, "we need to re-examine our basic assumptions about planetary atmospheres and what causes the observed heating."