Astronomy › Section I · Giant planets, moons, and rings › Topic I.3
Atmospheres of the giant planets
Everything we see of a giant planet is atmosphere: stacked cloud decks, racing jet streams and storms bigger than Earth that last for centuries. Their weather follows the same physics as ours, under very different conditions.
In this topic
- Reading the gases
- Clouds form where gases condense
- Worked example: reading a cloud stack
- Where the colours come from
- Bands, zones and jet streams
- Worked example: a cloud circling Neptune
- Neptune and Uranus: active and quiet
- Storms that last for centuries
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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