Neptune's south pole is warmer by 10 degrees, reveals study

The Hindustan Times | September 19, 2007 | Copyright

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Washington, Sept. 19 -- An international team of astronomers have using the European Southern Observatory's (ESO's) Very Large Telescope (VLT), discovered that Neptune's south pole is much hotter than the rest of the planet.

The team found that the warm south pole is providing an avenue for methane to escape out of the planet's deep atmosphere.

"The temperatures are so high that methane gas, which should be frozen out in the upper part of Neptune's atmosphere, the stratosphere, can leak out through this region," ...

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