Now we all know that Earth rains water right? The water from lakes, oceans, or any body of water evaporates and then that makes clouds and so on eventually ending in water falling from the sky known as water. The Water Cycle is what it’s called if you remember fifth grade science at all, but what do other planets rain? The answer might be quite interesting and might even scare you.
2. Unfortunately(?) Diamonds
Yeah, I know that sounds painful doesn't it? That’s why I’m glad we don’t inhabit the great planet Saturn because there it rains diamonds. Diamonds raining from the sky must be some entrepreneurs dream but here's the thing about them, they never actually reach the ground. “The diamond maintains its structure until …show more content…
Dust Storms AND Snow?
On the great, believed to be, dusty red planet, Mars, it apparently snows snow that is “. . . , made of carbon dioxide rather than water, are thought to be about the size of red blood cells.” Tim Sharp the Reference Editor for Space.com wrote in his article about Mars’ weather. Not to mention the extreme, “Giant dust devils routinely [kicking] up the oxidized iron dust that covers Mars' surface.“ Mars seems to have both it’s north and south poles capped in ice and dust storms that can be so violent they cover the entire planet for days, weeks, and even months at a time.
4. Hotter Than Eating a Raw Jalapeno
I hate summers on Earth already so Mercury is definitely not somewhere I would want to visit because its temperatures during the day “. . .can reach 800 degrees Fahrenheit (430 degrees Celsius).” Mercury has scorching weather everyday that ,I imagine, wouldn’t be pleasant at all to withstand. I’m afraid it’s nightime weather is just as terrifying too because NationalGeographic makes it pretty clear in their article that “. . . temperatures on the surface can drop to -280 degrees Fahrenheit (-170 degrees Celsius).” Weather humans could never withstand during the day and the night is only one of the reasons we won’t be able to travel to Mercury in the near …show more content…
Horizontally, as in “. . . the planet rains glass sideways in 4,350 mile per hour (7,000 km/h) winds. . .” Hubble officials state about this ‘alien planet’ albeit a bit terrified and confused. If glass coming at you sideways being classified as ‘weather’ on this ‘alien plant’ isn’t at least slightly fear-inducing then I might just be a wimp. It also seems that the planet never rotates and is stuck with a dayside and nightside permanently. What a joy that the day-side is over 1,800 Fahrenheit and the night-side is about 500 degrees less than that. Why is it that every plant that seems relatively astounding we can never have the hope to visit