Over the past few years, the white clouds that usually shroud Neptune’s surface have disappeared, and it may be because of changes in the sun’s activity over its 11-year cycle
, its energy could kickstart chemical reactions there, creating clouds of methane and other chemicals. Those chemical reactions take time, hence the two-year delay. The correlation is surprising, though, because Neptune is so far from the sun that it only gets 1 per cent the sunlight that Earth does – from there, the sun looks more like a particularly bright star in the night sky than the blinding orb that we see from Earth.
The correlation isn’t completely confirmed yet. While sunlight could certainly cause the reactions that create Neptune’s clouds, it could also darken the clouds and hazes, so the cause and effect may not be quite so simple.that begin deep in its atmosphere and then rise to the surface, and it is unclear what role that might play. The researchers are continuing to monitor Neptune to try to get a better grip on the complexities of its cloud layers.
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