# @nasa on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CsmeeiipLPR
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/6677183-nasa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-05-23T21:44:16.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

Wow, Uranus is showing off more these days.⁣
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Peering beneath clouds of the ice giant – Uranus – scientists have seen strong evidence of a large polar cyclone at the planet’s north pole. Astronomers, using data from ground-based telescopes, looked deeper into Uranus’ atmosphere than ever before, observing that air at the north pole seems drier and warmer, an indication of a strong cyclone.⁣
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This new view of Uranus adds to the data that all planets in our solar system with a substantial atmosphere show signs of a swirling vortex at the poles. Our Voyager-2 spacecraft captured evidence of a cyclone at the planet’s other end, the south pole, when it passed by the ice giant in 1986.⁣
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Image 1: A microwave observation in wavelength band Ka shows Uranus in shades of blue and green, with the colors tinting lighter green toward the right side of the planet. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/VLA⁣
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Image 2: A microwave observation in wavelength band Q shows the ice giant in shades of blue, orange, and purple, with the colors tinting lighter orange toward the right side of the planet. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/VLA⁣
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Image 3: A microwave observation in wavelength band K shows the ice giant in shades of blue, black, and white, with the colors getting lighter toward the right side of the planet. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/VLA⁣
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Image 4: Voyager captures the full disk of Uranus which appears light-blue in the blackness of space, in the lower right portion of the planet, a faint white cloud appears. Credit: NASA⁣
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