"NASA Discovers Powerful Polar Cyclone on Uranus, Revealing the Dynamic Nature of the Mysterious Planet"
The distance between Earth and Uranus is about 2.5 billion kilometers.
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Uranus is difficult to study due to its great distance.
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Ground-based telescopes can only observe the side of Uranus facing Earth
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NASA's Voyager 2 mission previously discovered a cyclone-like feature at Uranus' South Pole.
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infrared measurements at the time couldn't determine the strength of the storm.
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NASA scientists now have strong evidence of a polar cyclone on Uranus.
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Radio wave measurements from the Very Large Array observatory indicate warmer and drier air at Uranus' North Pole, indicative of a powerful cyclone.
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the presence of cyclones at the poles of every planet in our solar system, except Mercury, suggests swirling vortexes are common in planetary atmospheres.
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Uranus' cyclone resembles the one observed on Saturn and remains locked at the pole without drifting.
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Speculation suggests there may be multiple cyclones stacked on top of each other on Uranus.