NASA help distant planet have cloudsand
Most clouds on Earth are made of water, but beyond our planet they come in many chemical varieties. The top of Jupiter's atmosphere,
blanketed in yellow-hued clouds made of ammonia and ammonium hydrosulfide
worlds outside our solar system, there are clouds composed of silicates, the family of rock-
researchers haven't been able to observe the conditions under which these clouds of small dust grains form.
A new study appearing in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society provides some insight:
The research reveals the temperature range at which silicate clouds can form and are visible at the top of a distant planet's atmosphere
he finding was derived from observations by NASA's retired Spitzer Space Telescope of brown dwarfs
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