RELEASE: 99-47 HUGE SPRING STORMS ROUSE URANUS FROM WINTER HIBERNATION

From: Regulatory Intelligence Data | Date: March 29, 1999| Author: INDSTRY GROUP 99 | Copyright information


Regulatory Intelligence Data

03-29-1999

If springtime on Earth were anything like it will be on
Uranus, we would be experiencing waves of massive storms, each one covering
the country from Kansas to New York, with temperatures of 300 degrees below
zero.

A dramatic new time-lapse movie by NASA's Hubble Space
Telescope shows for the first time seasonal changes on the planet. Once
considered one of the blander-looking planets, Ur...

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