Top 10 Great Secrets Of The Solar System listverse.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from listverse.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
When Oscar Wilde said “conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative” he was unaware of some of the more extreme weather on planets and moons other than Earth.
Since the discovery of the first exoplanet in 1992, more than 4,000 planets have been discovered orbiting stars other than our own.
The continuing research with exoplanets involves trying to identify their atmospheric composition, specifically to answer the question of whether life could exist there. In this search for life though, astronomers have found a huge variety of potential worlds out there.
Here are four examples of bizarre weather on other astronomical bodies – to show how varied an exoplanet atmosphere could be.
NASA Probe View Of Venus Shows Something It Shouldn't Have Seen iflscience.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from iflscience.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.