Post by StuartG on Sept 14, 2010 22:02:45 GMT 1
Giant planet GJ 436b in the constellation Leo is missing something--and that something is swamp gas.....
'roughly 33 light-years away from Earth'
www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1759.html
Wiki
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_436_b
'Hot Ice'
en.wikinews.org/wiki/Recently_discovered_planet_may_contain_%27hot_ice%27
from JPL
"NASA Science Update images and animations"
planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/news/ssu_images.cfm
[includes repeat on "Whipping Around an M Dwarf"]
I think, what they meant to say is 'This planet has a different smell' because it has no [very little] 'swamp gas' [methane/hydrogen sulphide?]
StuartG
'roughly 33 light-years away from Earth'
www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1759.html
Wiki
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_436_b
'Hot Ice'
en.wikinews.org/wiki/Recently_discovered_planet_may_contain_%27hot_ice%27
from JPL
"NASA Science Update images and animations"
planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/news/ssu_images.cfm
[includes repeat on "Whipping Around an M Dwarf"]
I think, what they meant to say is 'This planet has a different smell' because it has no [very little] 'swamp gas' [methane/hydrogen sulphide?]
StuartG