Hubble Space Telescope Helps Find Evidence that Neptunes Largest Moon is Warming Up
Depicts: Neptune, Triton
Copyright: J. Elliot (MIT), and NASA
"Since 1989, at least, Triton has been undergoing a period of global warming percentage-wise, its a very large increase," said James L. Elliot, an astronomer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA. The warming trend is causing part of Tritons frozen nitrogen surface to turn into gas, thus making its thin atmosphere denser. Dr. Elliot and his colleagues from MIT, Lowell Observatory, and Williams College published their findings in the June 25 issue of the journal Nature.
Last Update: 1 September 2019
