{"id":170436,"date":"2023-08-24T23:25:47","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T04:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/mysterious-dark-vortex-on-neptune-seen-from-earth-for-first-time"},"modified":"2023-08-24T23:25:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T04:25:47","slug":"mysterious-dark-vortex-on-neptune-seen-from-earth-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/mysterious-dark-vortex-on-neptune-seen-from-earth-for-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious Dark Vortex on Neptune Seen From Earth For First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u9CYn2Wr5K0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>O.o!!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Ever since Voyager 2 flew past Neptune <a href=\"https:\/\/voyager.jpl.nasa.gov\/mission\/science\/neptune\/\">in 1989<\/a>, the giant dark smudges that appear in the distant planet\u2019s atmosphere have presented a strange puzzle.<\/p>\n<p>Now, for the first time, we have observed one with Earth-based instruments in unprecedented resolution, helping scientists figure out why those patches appear so dark and why they are so different from spots on other planets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the first discovery of a dark spot, I\u2019ve always wondered what these short-lived and elusive dark features are,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/news\/eso2314\/?lang\">says astronomer Patrick Irwin<\/a> of the University of Oxford in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O.o!! Ever since Voyager 2 flew past Neptune in 1989, the giant dark smudges that appear in the distant planet\u2019s atmosphere have presented a strange puzzle. Now, for the first time, we have observed one with Earth-based instruments in unprecedented resolution, helping scientists figure out why those patches appear so dark and why they are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}