PLN #4

I recently read an article called Cold Neptune has Warm Spot in which the planet Neptune one of the coldest planets in the solar system has a newly discovered hot spot. An international team of astronomers say that Neptune's south pole is a lot warmer then other parts of the planet. They say the south pole is as much as 18 degrees warmer than the rest of the planet where the average temperature can get down to 320 degrees below zero. The reason that the south pole is warmer is because it has been in the sunlight for the last 40 years estimate scientists. Although 18 degrees may not seem like a lot it's a pretty significant change since Neptune is 2.8 billion miles away from the sun. A Neptune year is equivalent to 165 earth years. Also, Neptune receives only 1/900th of the sunlight that earth does. "Like earth Neptune's south pole is tilted in the summer to the sun in the souther hemisphere"- said astronomer Glenn Orten. Despite it's distance from the sun Neptune's atmosphere is still a scene of great activity. How I believe this matters is that all of the planets are changing over time like earth with it's ozone layer deterioration over time and I don't think it can be very good for our world and universe. I can't see a real way of stopping or changing it but we defidentley don't think its in our best interest to continue to let all of these changes occur.