this is cbs i in the world behind the black bob simmerman we're going

exploring neptune spectacular images where these come from

these come from a variety of places and i don't i don't know that the

data spectator of the image is a spectacular but it's definitely

uh... this is data covering almost thirty years of neptune

looking at certain certain clouds in its atmosphere and what scientists

have done looking at that long-term data is they have discovered

there appears to be a correlation between the amount of cloud cover on

the out of parts of this gas giant

a link between that cloud cover

and the sunspot cycle appears that when the sun is active

there are more clouds in the upper atmosphere of neptune when the sun is

inactive

there are less clouds in fact right now

there are no clouds in the atmosphere they've all kind of asked for the first

time in many years

now this is a very tentative discovery but it does raise a question because

uh... if

if neptune is affected by the solar activity

getting what one nine hundredth of the sunlight of the earth and it's two

hundred point

eight billion miles away from the sun

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