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We all know that things have changed for the better in many ways as the future presses on. While we think the tech and look of our world today is terrific, it might not hold a candle to how the future might look for us. We decided to find out what could be possible in our lifetime. Not only are some major changes expected but several are in development as you’re reading this now. There are literally hundreds of breakthroughs happening in the world of tech seemingly every month.

Each passing day, something new happens that then results in science fiction slowly becoming science reality. Yet when thinking about how the future might look, we wanted to look at things that could be on everyone’s wish list. The only stopping point for us was that it had to be possible AND it had to be something that could be relatively future-proof itself. The future can be quite scary but when you see what we’ve been able to prove possible, you’ll be wanting us to skip time immediately. To better help direct when you can expect things, we gave our best guess on the year you might see each come to pass.

Virtual Assistants Will Be Kicked Up A Notch

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Hypothetical Timeline: Between 2025 to 2035

We’ve already seen how virtual assistants have been helping us in many ways right now. However, this is usually through things like the Amazon Alexa or Google Home devices. Only the rich can afford smart homes where a version of AI helps with security, turning on lights, etc. That will not be the case for long, as assistants will be on us at all times. They will be so ingrained into our lives, that kids will use them as much as adults.

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They will be your child’s tutor when needed, help you come up with ideas for that big project for work, and might even be an amateur therapist for you to utilize. When people think about how the future might look, they tend to think of something more flashy here. Yet virtual assistants will still be a version of Artificial Intelligence, just one that will sound and operate like a normal person. Think of it like Cortana from the Halo video games or Gideon from DC’s Legends of Tomorrow.

Nuclear Power Will Be Our Main Energy Resource

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Hypothetical Timeline: Between 2030 to 2050

It has been said by pretty much every single energy scientist that nuclear power would be the most powerful, cheapest, and even one of the cleanest energy source we could use. The problem? We have not figured out how to properly use it, especially in the safest ways. That will all change one day and could result in the cost of your power bill being reduced to pennies compared to what you see it as today.

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The reason? Every area will have its own nuclear power grid, potentially owned by the city, state, province, or village you’re in at the time. We already utilize nuclear power in America, as we are home to 99 nuclear power units across 33 states as of 2020 data. It makes up 8.5% of our total energy, compared to Petroleum and Natural Gas at the top. Since nuclear energy is fairly new and will take time to properly improve, we expect it to be the main energy producer in the next 10 to 30 years.

Tactical VR/AR For Use In The Military

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Hypothetical Timeline: Between 2025 to 2030

Not only are we already seeing virtual reality and augmented reality grow, but they are also becoming much more advanced at a faster rate than previously assumed. For those unaware, the people who tend to get revolutionary technology first are usually always the Armed Forces, particularly in the United States. When you think of how the future might look, it’s always best to see where the military fits in. As a result, they will likely get major VR/AR technology for use in tactical needs.

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It might start out helping armed forces members train well for real combat situations. Yet they can also be useful for 3D mapping. Scans can be done on buildings so in-depth that it’ll almost be like a video game. You’ll be able to see the major sectors of the building, know what is in each room, and detect heat signatures. AR will give you a way to use and bring up these maps in specialized goggles or glasses that can be used even during the fight or invasion.

Fully Automated Warehouse and Logistical Work

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Hypothetical Timeline: Between 2025 to 2035

We might be getting closer and closer to a fully automated system in the world of logistics. We’ve already pretty much let automation assist here a lot in the last few decades. Amazon alone has now two insanely large warehouses. Due to so much, they needed automation to help them find and keep track of things. Yet a lot of the labor is on Amazon employees. It is unlikely that this will remain the case for long.

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Due to the billions the company has at its disposal, it will be among the first to fully automate. They won’t be the only ones, as robotics will become a major force here. Labor is the area where we all know robots or AI will be used sooner than most other areas. It’ll be good to see, as it will involve far fewer injuries or deaths in warehouse incidents. The automated systems can take the supplies, sort them as well as find them, and load them. This potential situation will be happening pretty soon too.

Free Internet Will Be Provided For All That Need It

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Hypothetical Timeline: Between 2035 to 2050

Due to the massive growth in artificial intelligence, virtual/augmented reality, virtual assistants, as well as much more that is yet to come – we’ll be a society reliant on its technology. Since most of this tech will need at least some connection to the internet, we cannot expect people to live their lives paying an outrageous sum for their internet. It’ll likely be in use much more as time goes on, making it a major need.

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That is when national governments will choose to offer a public internet service that will be completely free. It’ll suck at first but soon will become as good as many other services. Private companies will choose to help here, making better services to choose from. Thus bringing their costs down to compete. The services might mostly be used for businesses over your random person at home, yet it could be affordable for all. That said, the internet will be free but private companies can still offer their service to help with issues the government internet does not.

Designer Babies Via Gene Editing Technology

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Hypothetical Timeline: Between 2025 to 2035

Due to the power of gene editing, we will now for the first time ever, be capable of spotting and even removing major issues from a child before they are born. Say your family has a hereditary disease involving the heart. That will end as your child could have that edited from their genes entirely. As amazing as gene editing will be for people, there is also a small dark side to it. This comes in the form of “designer children.”

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These are children that you choose to change specific things about so that they look a certain way. It could be a melanin change that affects skin color, eye color, and even hair color. However, as things progress, you might also be able to set a potential height that you’d like your child to be in the future. This means you could change several things about them that make them differ from you. When thinking about how the future might look, this could be a bit scary to think about.

Our Oceans Will Be Clean Of Trash and Plastics

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Hypothetical Timeline: Between 2040 to 2060

We’ve all be working on a good way to help clean up the oceans, but it seems like an impossible task. For human beings, it truly is impossible. However, that is not the case for the possible technology we could use. There are a few ways we could handle this. In June 2020, it was reported that plastic-eating bacteria had been discovered. If it can be replicated, it can be a small step in the right direction. Yet you cannot assume unleashing a lot of bacteria in worldwide waters is the best decision.

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Rather, many believe nanobots would be the best choice to make. They could more than likely eat up trash and then make whatever they consume into a biodegradable substance. Resulting in very few problems for sea creatures, with some areas even getting a small spike in plant growth. It will likely even be possible to use nanobots at landfills eventually, making pretty much all our trash recyclable in some form or another. It’ll take time to clean up all the trash from Earth’s oceans though.

Perfect Insulation

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Hypothetical Timeline: Between 2030 to 2040

You might be surprised to learn that we do not have perfect insulation even in America. People still let in the outside air even with windows and doors closed quite a lot. Yet we’re seeing incredible advancements that can keep cool or warm air out of homes or things like food and drinks. If you’ve ever used a YETI thermos, you know it can keep your drink hot or cold for several hours. Yet this will not last for an unlimited period of time.

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Advancements have been made that allow their thermoses to keep temperatures exact for much longer than ever before. Yet there is still no unlimited way, but that could change. It is expected that we’ll have proper products in place to maintain exact temperatures for numerous things, including our homes, in the next 10 to 20 years. Many believe that this type of technology could be drastically important. For many, it could save money as power bills typically rise due to heat or air conditioning usage.

Lab Food Will Be Abundant and Will Be Healthier For You Too

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Hypothetical Timeline: Between 2040 to 2060

“Food” can be a relative term as many things could be considered food for many different creatures. We’ve been making formula for babies as well as a lot of baby foods out of labs for many years. However, we soon could be seeing the same concept in play. It is simply a fact that we will not have enough possible food to keep our growing population happy. Even if you could grow your own food, it might still be difficult to expect to grow enough for you to live on year-round.

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But there will be a way to help. In fact, it is already happening right now. While you might go to the store and grab beef or poultry for dinner, this stuff may one day claim to be one of them but won’t be. The people behind “The Impossible Whopper” were able to make a Burger taste just like a Burger King Whopper. Except it is made from plants, not beef. This same concept will continue but you’ll also be able to get proper nutrients with lab-made foods. All without the major issues some foods come with that might cause some health issues. You might even be able to get options for those with special allergies!

Forest Fires Stopped By Sound

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Hypothetical Timeline: Between 2022 to 2028

Forest Fires are a huge problem worldwide, especially in places like California in the United States. Yet the way we fight them is likely pretty primitive. We use water and fire extinguishers. Often even sand is dropped in large forms. However, when you think about how the future might look for fire fighting, expect “sound” to play a role. Researchers at George Mason University in Virginia made a sonic extinguisher.

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They proved that it could put out fires quite effectively, especially when set on bass frequencies. Sound is made up of what we call “pressure waves.” These waves can be used to disrupt the air around us, including the air surrounding a fire. It accomplishes this by cutting off the supply of oxygen the fire uses to keep it fueled. At a proper frequency, the fire simply dies out. We very well could send drones into major forest fires and have them use sonic noise to put away fires quickly.

Emission-Free Vehicles

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Hypothetical Timeline: Between 2030 to 2040

When you seek to change a major issue in the climate crisis, a large factor in this will be changing out gas-fueled vehicles for those that operate on other sources. We already have cars that run on electric and solar energy, yet when you think about how the future might look in this area, you’ll likely see a drastic change. The real problem with these vehicles is usually that they look terrible. Yet places like Ford are changing that in an effort to push the electric market.

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From here, energy use must be improved in them and we’ll need to have places where rapid charges can be employed. Just as we have gas stations today. The first step in the right direction will be for companies to produce emission-free buses, trains, and other public transportation. This will cut down on a lot of emission issues. From here, reduced rates and a movement to move completely away from new gas-fueled cars will need to be done. By 2050, it is likely we will have done just that.

Knowledge Of Your Possible Death and Cause From The Moment You’re Born

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Hypothetical Timeline: 2040 to 2070

We are already capable of looking at the human body via radiation through things like X-Rays, CT Scans, and MRI machines today. They have literally been lifesavers and all occurred between your grandparent’s and/or parents’ lives. Imagine what will come in your lifetime. One day, we will be able to see everything potentially wrong with a child in its future within minutes of its birth. It is expected that a machine will be made that can look at possible signs that health problems could develop.

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It’ll likely do this via knowledge of the time. Such as what we know of specific signs or numbers, and what they typically mean. It will not be 100% accurate but will likely be just under that. One reason this is important for how the future might look is that it can allow us to change. It’ll be a warning sign rather than a defined sentence for most of us. On top of that, doctors could likely give the child a shot to rid it of some diseases that we suffer from today. Such as diabetes, all from the data collected minutes after the child’s birth.

Commercial Space Travel

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Hypothetical Timeline: 2030 to 2040

People like Elon Musk have been stating that commercial space travel is going to happen, the only question is “when” it will occur. Musk’s team at SpaceX has already figured out incredible things that even NASA had yet to accomplish, such as putting the first liquid-fueled rocket into space. They even made headlines in 2010 for being the first to launch a payload into orbit and return it to Earth completely intact. The United States and Russian governments cannot even say they did that.

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They also sent a rocket into space in 2015 that landed upright and recovered a previously sent rocket, the first to do this. A lot of what SpaceX has proven is that space travel can be done at an inexpensive level, as long as the tech can be used multiple times and not just once. Now that we know it can, it is only a matter of knowing how we can take people up to space without it being a major issue. This will take time, but in 10 to 20 years, it’ll likely be happening regularly.

The Smart Needle Tech

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Hypothetical Timeline: 2022 to 2030

Something has just been invented that happens to be unique, yet absolutely incredible. It is called the “smart needle,” and was developed by scientists from the University of Exeter. It is able to speed up cancer detection and diagnosis periods. The researchers who developed it believe it will specifically help with diagnosing lymphoma. It’ll also reduce anxiety patients might have as they wait on results. Quite frankly, if you don’t have to wait long at all, how could you become anxious, right?

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That said, the way lymphoma is tested for now is that one provides a sample of their cells. This will also involve a biopsy of the node, which will be carried out to fully diagnose someone. As you can assume, this is quite time-consuming. The Smart Needle utilizes something referred to as Raman Spectroscopy. It merely shines a low-power laser into the part of the body that is being inspected. It takes mere seconds to spot any potential concerns. This could heavily change how the future might look in how we test for other cancers too! That could take a few years, however.

Babies Will Be To Fully Develop In A Lab

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Hypothetical Timeline: 2030 to 2050

In DC Comics, the story of Superman follows a man named Clark Kent who comes from the planet Krypton. His true name is Kal-El, and he was the first and only naturally born Kryptonian child of his generation. Reading this or hearing about it as children, you might have assumed it was pretty cool. Babies could fully grow in labs or pods on Krypton? No woman was having children naturally except for Superman’s mom? That had to be science fiction, right?

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For now, this will not be the case for very long. Right now, premature babies born at the 6-month mark can develop fully outside the mother’s womb, under hospital care. We can already have sperm link up with an egg in a lab before putting it inside a woman. These steps are proving that we’re getting close to the capacity of full child development in a lab. For some, this is how the future might look for family development. Taking an egg and sperm cells from two parents and having the child form for 9 months in a lab. We’re so close that experts feel we’re about a decade or two away.

Smart Floating Farm

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Hypothetical Timeline: 2030 to 2050

There are many who feel it is only a matter of time before the Earth will see its land overrun by the consistent build-up of water. Of course, this is not a crazy assumption. Water has been moving inward for centuries, even before we had a climate crisis. That said, we’ll need to be prepared for if and when this happens. This is why the Smart Floating Farm has been getting a lot of attention. Keep in mind, by 2050 we’ll be over 9 billion people worldwide.

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This means food production will need to increase by up to 70% the rate it is at now. Without land to plant on, we’ll have a global food hunger crisis. The Smart Floating Farm concept comes from a company that uses that exact name. They have proposed a 2.2 million square feet fish farm, hydroponic garden, and more. Complete with solar panels on the roof to power it all. It could then be anchored to sea beds in oceans, lakes, and rivers. With the right funding, this is how the future might look for food production!

Artificially Intelligent, Realistic Sex Robots

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Hypothetical Timeline: 2040 to 2060

One thing people have been discussing for a long time is the progression of Artificial Intelligence. Heck, we’ve even mentioned it a few times here! The expectation is that AI will one day be so good that it will be hard to distinguish a robot from a human being. We’ve already seen how impressive Sophia the Robot has been when it comes to random conversation. There are even robots that can write stories or operate as tremendous personal assistants.

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However, it’ll take time before we reach the Detroit: Become Human stage. The moment we do, the first two places these robots will end up is the military and the world of sex. Due to human trafficking being a major issue, especially for young women, the problem with this could be reduced. Sex Robots designed to look like what a person wants will reduce the need for humans to fit that fantasy. When you think of how the future might look, this may seem creepy. In reality, it could save lives.

Carbon Dioxide Removal Technology

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Hypothetical Timeline: 2050 to 2070

Right now, the world is overheating causing a global climate crisis. In large part, this is due to all the excess carbon dioxide in the environment. People assume whenever that gas comes out of your car’s tailpipe, it goes into the air and is no longer a problem for anyone. Yet it does not leave the environment and head into space or anything. If it could do this, oxygen also would do so and we, therefore, could not breathe. Yet once we go green, even slightly before, there are ways to help.

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Technology is currently in development that, if successful, could find carbon dioxide in the environment and hopefully remove excess amounts of it. Tech for this might even be installed near or right in factories or areas where CO2 is much higher. It could then be gathered and taken into space for proper removal. While it will surely take time to accomplish this, this is how the future might look. Where we make the planet healthier by partially removing its biggest frienemy.

Programmable Clothing

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Hypothetical Timeline: 2030 to 2045

When you see the term “programmable clothing,” what do you think? Perhaps, you assume the type of clothing you can wear can change color, maybe even style. However, many developers have even obsessed with the clothing we saw in Back to the Future II. Remember when Marty goes into the future and is given a jacket and some shoes that were too big for him? They ended up recognizing his size and adjusted to him accordingly.

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Many feel this kind of tech would be awesome for clothing, as it would ensure a proper fit. Unlike what some stuff might say when they claim it’s “one size fits all,” this literally could make such a statement. While you might see some clothing proclaiming it is programmable, they tend to only reference LED attachments. The size change tech is not something we can expect to see immediately, but it is part of how the future might look. We’d expect it sometime within the next 20 years or less.

Gene Editing Will Bring Back Extinct Animals

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Hypothetical Timeline: 2030 to 2040

Gene Editing has managed to make some massive breakthroughs in just the last 5 to 10 years alone. Many expect that it’ll only improve. CRISPR happens to be the leading gene-editing tech, but this won’t be long-term. Only until someone develops something even better. Right now, however, we can actually do a lot of impressive editing for humans as well as animals. That is why many expect gene editing to lead to the return of some specific extinct animals.

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Dinosaurs are often referenced, but no one wants to see a “Jurassic Park” issue. On top of that, even if we managed to get everything 100% correct about them, it is unlikely they’d be as large. During their era, we had a really high level of oxygen, allowing all animals to be quite large. That level won’t exist in their comeback, but this is how the future might look. An era of extinction reversals. The question is, would we want gene editing to develop mythological creatures like the unicorn too?

Body Scan Healthcare

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Hypothetical Timeline: 2050 to 2070

You might be surprised to learn that one day, we might not have as much need for doctors as we do today. While the field of nurses will likely not reduce by much, medical doctors overall won’t be as needed. Technology is currently underway that will allow a person’s body to be completely scanned. It will then show specific health issues, which will tell the person what’s potentially wrong with them. Yes, this is how the future might look for the world of medicine, people!

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The only issue is that you do not want it to be like an MRI or X-Ray. We’d need it to be radiation-free. That makes things a bit harder, but not impossible. These scans can be done from your birth all the way into adulthood. It’ll keep up with your development, health issues, and much more. A system could likely tell you what is wrong with you, or doctors could be given enhanced images to tell them. You can then be given improved, accurate counsel on what to do next and medications to use.

Self-Driving Vehicles Will Completely Replace Cabs/UBER

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Hypothetical Timeline: 2035 to 2050

You’ve likely heard a lot about self-driving cars by now. They are a staple in science fiction yet they are important to how the future might look too. Places like Google have been developing them and even have one on campus to drive people around right now! The issue is that this would need to be something you could use anywhere. Funny enough, it’s actually quite easy to do, but it’ll take a long time. The way to do it is by putting microchips on the roads, obviously in a protected box of some sort.

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The self-driving car would then be able to know where it is going based on the chips. It is likely that we’ll see these in major cities first. Then, they will slowly go into smaller towns. Since Google also owns Google Maps, it will likely be the industry leader here. By the way, putting chips on the road is cheap. They cost about a penny each and can be replaced with ease. It’s also likely self-driving cars will put cabs as well as UBER and other ride-sharing companies out of business eventually.

Robotic Enhancements Will Be A Reality

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Hypothetical Timeline: 2030 to 2040

While you should not expect the type of robotic enhancements that of those in Cyberpunk 2077, you can expect robotic enhancement in other forms. Moreover, “robotic” might not even be the best term. Some scientists are trying to utilize nanobots as a potential asset to the body that can replace hands, feet, and even entire arms and legs. So far, people have been able to use robotics in this territory but nowhere near as much as they could.

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Nanobots can form around to fit the exact sizing a person happens to be. They might also be capable of even forming to look almost like the real thing. They’d also be enhanced enough to connect to the body and brain to work exactly like a lost limb, or even better. On top of this, if the look is still too obvious, your own body tissue could be used to cover them. If that’s not enough, nanobots alone are no risk to the body. Therefore, healthy enough to not cause any problems long-term.

Organs Will Be Grown In Labs, Rather Than Taken From Other Humans

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Hypothetical Timeline: 2040 to 2060

Years ago, a group of scientists made the first-ever lab-formed bladder. It was then used to replace a problematic one in a patient, which turned out to be successful. Lab-made organs like this are a huge part of how the future might look. As everyone knows by now, every nation has a “Transplant List.” This will one day be a thing of the past, as people will need to remove perhaps a cancerous lung and can then replace it with a lab-made lung.

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This lung will be formed using their exact tissue, blood type, etc. That ensures the body will not reject it, which sadly happens more than we’d like. This won’t occur with lab-made organs, however. The big organ that will make all others possible is the Kidney. Once scientists can form a full healthy kidney in a lab that lasts long-term, every other needed organ will be a breeze to form. Plus, the organ needed the most on transplant lists is always the kidney anyway. This would save millions of lives!

Your DNA Will Be Used To Store Data

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Hypothetical Timeline: 2023 to 2030

You read that right, your DNA will be capable of storing data. Researchers were able to electronically write data into the DNA of living bacteria in January 2021. This was a huge concept, as the idea they had was that it would be completely future-proof. You would no longer need a hard disc, flash drive, or even a memory card. Plus, your DNA happens to be a very useful storage sector. First, you can actually keep information safer and it would even be hard to hack since it’s not on a server.

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If that was not enough to convince you, your DNA is 1,000 times denser than any known hard drive man has ever created. You could store the equivalent of 10 full-length digital movies within the volume of a grain of salt using your DNA. Imagine how much the rest of your DNA could store! Since your DNA is clearly central to human biology, readers and DNA writers will become cheaper as time goes on, and even more powerful along with it. We could see this as soon as a few years from now!

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Seven of the eight planets in the solar system are circled by atmospheres. They also surround some of the larger moons, including Saturn’s moon Titan and even Pluto, a Kuiper Belt object. On Earth, the weather impacts all of our lives and activities. The weather is determined by the motion and state of the atmosphere. It can change hour-to-hour or day-to-day. Some people confuse weather and climate as being interchangeable. However, unlike the weather, climate refers to an area’s average conditions over a longer period. Climate doesn’t change day-to-day but rather over decades to millions of years. 

Each planet has unique weather patterns. You may be wondering: what drives the weather? The energy supply that powers the most weather on Venus, Earth, and Mars is light from the sun. Over the year, each planet’s regions near the equator are heated more than the poles. The atmosphere moves in response to this unequal heating, transporting the heat from warmer to cooler areas. These specific motions are reflected in the high and low-pressure weather systems that move across the middle latitudes.

In shorter terms, the weather is solar-powered. Two critical influences can alter the response of an atmosphere to this heating. The first influence is gravity, which prevents the atmosphere from quickly escaping to space and forms layers within the atmosphere. The second influence is the rotation of the planet. The rotation can deflect winds. Read on to find out about some of the most extreme weather patterns on other planets. 

20. Titan experiences seasons, has clouds that rain, and has an atmosphere composed mainly of nitrogen, just like ours. 

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The most familiar weather in the solar system is on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Photo Credit: Dotted Yeti/Shutterstock

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Titan is Saturn’s largest moon and the second-largest moon in the solar system after Jupiter’s moon Ganymede. It is one of the most unique moons in the solar system. Titan is covered in thick, hazy clouds. Saturn’s largest moon’s dense atmosphere is home to many lakes, rivers, and even glaciers. You might be surprised to learn that similar to places on Earth, it also rains and snows on Titan. However, it is crucial to recognize that while the weather and even climate have similarities to Earth, they couldn’t be more different. On Earth, rain and snow are primarily composed of water.

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3D animation of Saturn and its moon Titan rotating in dark outer space. Photo Credit: Frame Stock Footage/Shutterstock

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Titan is significantly different in that the mixture is mostly made up of methane. Also mixed in are a little ethane and propane. This methane cycle on Titan falls from the clouds straight into the lakes, rivers, and seas. While we have methane on Earth, it is in gas form rather than a liquid state. On Titan, to freeze the methane out of the clouds, it must be colder than -296.5 degrees Fahrenheit. This extreme weather pattern makes Titan look a little less vacation-friendly. You may also be shocked to learn that hundreds of times more natural gas and hydrocarbon fuel on Titan than on the entire Earth.

19. Mars’ famous dust storms can last for months.

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Mars has a pattern of seasons that are incredibly similar to those on Earth. However, the surface pressure of Mars is over one hundred times lower. Photo Credit: Anterovium/Shutterstock

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The understanding of Mars’s atmosphere remains a mystery. However, there is plenty of bizarre weather that occurs on the planet. Mars is farther from the Sun than Earth is, and the air on Mars is extremely thin. In the daytime, summer temperatures only get up to about 80 degrees Fahrenheit. The temperature at night can drop to almost negative 200 degrees Fahrenheit. The cause of this drastic swing from warm to cold is that the air on Mars is mostly made up of carbon dioxide.

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This artist’s concept illustrates a Martian dust storm, which might also crackle with electricity. Photo Credit: NASA

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In comparison to Earth, the air on Mars is extremely thin. In fact, it is so thin that the heat from the daytime Sun escapes into space at night. Also, the thin air can kick up a huge dust storm. The massive dust storms can encompass the entire planet over a few days. Despite many hopes of astronomers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Mars is not an inhabitable planet. The dust storms have been known to last for weeks or months. Smaller wind patterns also work to kick up dust devils, also known as desert tornadoes. Mars also has poles that are covered in ice caps, which creates intense snowstorms. While the snow on Earth is made of frozen water, the snow on Mars is made from frozen carbon dioxide, also referred to as dry ice. 

18. Uranus’s unique rotating axis creates an unusual pattern of seasons over its long year. 

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Uranus contains clouds of methane ice in their cold atmosphere. It is unique in that Uranus lies almost entirely on its side. Photo Credit: buradaki/Shutterstock

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As the coldest planet in the solar system, Uranus reaches temperatures of -371 degrees Fahrenheit. That is partially due to its severe tilt with its north pole facing the sun. While the north pole faces the sun, the other pole is in an extended period of darkness. Uranus might appear like a planet with minimal activity on the outside, but it has an extreme weather system in reality. A telescope from Earth has spotted massive hurricanes brewing on Uranus. Due to its extreme tilt, seasonal variations are intense when the planet’s dark side comes out of its 40 plus year slumber. The frozen atmosphere heats up dramatically, causing violent storms.

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Uranus planet and rising sun in space. Photo Credit: 42videography/Shutterstock

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Interestingly, Uranus is still warmer at its equator than the poles, even though the poles receive direct sunlight with a low sun angle. Unlike other gas planets, Uranus does not radiate more heat than it gets. That indicates the world may have a cold interior due to its lack of an internal heat source. In the summer and winter, parts of the planet see nothing but daytime or nighttime for the whole season, approximately 21 years. In the spring and fall, Uranus goes through the full day-to-night cycle every 17 hours. The planet’s tilt has long been questioned. However, scientists theorize that it occurred due to a massive collision. 

17. The rain on Venus is almost entirely sulfuric acid.

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One of the most fascinating features of Venus is how slowly it rotates. It takes Venus 243 Earth days to turn once. Photo Credit: Dotted Yeti/Shutterstock

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The sulfuric acid on Venus is extremely corrosive. Venus holds the record for the hottest surface in comparison to all other planets. That is due to its super-thick atmosphere that is composed mostly of carbon dioxide. The thick atmosphere and clouds of sulfuric acid act as a greenhouse and trap more of the sun’s radiation, allowing it to reach incredibly high temperatures. The clouds on Venus are about the same pressure and temperature as those on Earth but are largely made from concentrated sulfuric acid. The extreme sulfuric rain weather pattern is so intense that it can erode items almost instantly and produce severe flesh burns in an instant.

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SDO satellite captures an ultra-high definition image of the Transit of Venus across the face of the sun on June 5, 2012, from space. Photo Credit: SDO/NASA

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There is minimal water in the atmosphere because the surface temperature is so high that the rain evaporates before hitting the ground. If Venus ever had oceans, they would have long since evaporated. No evidence remains on the surface. It is now covered with lava flows and huge faults and fractures. The east and west winds at the height of the clouds on Venus rotate once around the planet roughly every four days. The super-rotation phenomenon is best explained by complicated interactions with wave-like features feeding momentum into the large super-rotating jet. The runaway greenhouse effect means that temperatures are over 460 degrees Celsius, which is hot enough to melt lead. 

16. Jupiter’s moon, Europa, has a surface that is mostly water ice. 

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Decades ago, scientists theorized that there might be life living in an ocean beneath the icy surface of Jupiter’s moon, Europa. Photo Credit: Jurik Peter/Shutterstock

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While it is known that the surface of Europa is made of mostly ice, they also have strong evidence to suggest that there is an ocean of liquid water or slushy ice beneath the icy crust. The ground-based telescopes on Earth, along with a spacecraft and space telescope, have enhanced their confidence for a Europan ocean. Scientists believe that Europa’s ice shell is between 10 and 15 miles thick and floating on a sea 40 to 100 miles deep. Although Europa is only a quarter of Earth’s diameter, its ocean may contain twice as much water as all of Earth’s oceans combined. The vast and deep sea is thought to be one of the most promising places to look for life beyond Earth.

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An illustration of salty ocean water spraying from the icy crust of Jupiter’s moon Europa. Photo Credit: NASA

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As recently as last year, a research team led by NASA communicated that they had detected water vapor for the first time about Europa’s surface. Long, linear fractures crisscross Europa’s water and ice surface. Based on a small number of visible craters, the moon’s surface appears to be no more than 40 to 90 million years old. While that may seem extremely old, it is relatively youthful in geologic terms. Along the many fractures is a reddish-brown material containing salts and sulfur compounds mixed with water ice and modified by radiation. Europa orbits Jupiter every three-and-a-half days and is locked by gravity to Jupiter. Although the moon is covered in ice, Europa has mild seasons in comparison to other planets.

15. The blue color of this “blue alien planet” likely comes from molten glass rain. 

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There is a giant, blue marble alien planet that is 63 lightyears away from Earth. Photo Credit: NASA images/Shutterstock

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The super-hot glass rain is just one of the consequences of the closeness between the gas giant alien planet and its sun. The proximity causes daytime temperatures to rise as high as 1,700 degrees Fahrenheit. The blue alien planet, also referred to as HD189733b, has an outer atmosphere that is far larger than one might expect. Although the blue color can appear unique and intriguing, this planet is anything but that. According to NASA, the blue gas giant has a terrible wind that is seven times the speed of sound. The wind speeds can blow up to 5,400 miles per hour and whip potential travelers in a sickening spiral around the planet.

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This illustration shows HD 189733b, a huge gas giant that orbits very close to its host star HD 189733. The planet’s atmosphere is scorching with a temperature of over 1000 degrees Celsius, and it rains glass, sideways, in howling 7000 kilometer-per-hour winds. Image released July 11, 2013. Photo Credit: NASA, ESA/M. Kornmesser

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The alien world rains glass sideways in the howling winds. This terrifying experience would cut anything in its path. Earth appears blue because the oceans absorb red and green wavelengths more strongly than the blue ones. In turn, it reflects the blue hues of the sky. The cobalt blue color doesn’t come from the reflection of a tropical ocean. Instead, it comes from a hazy, blow-torched atmosphere that contains high clouds laced with silicate particles, which scatter blue light. It presented a favorable case for these kinds of measurements as it belongs to a class of planets known as hot Jupiters. This group of massive planets is similar in size to the gas giants in the Solar System, but instead, lie close to their parent stars. 

14. Jupiter’s east and west jets have created the planet’s banded appearance. 

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Despite its significant size, Jupiter rotates quite quickly. Each day is less than 10 hours long and is home to a variety of jets and vortices. Photo Credit: berni0004/Shutterstock

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Wind speeds on Jupiter can reach incredible speeds, with the swirling clouds giving the planet its beautiful appearance. The high, white clouds consist of ammonia crystals, while the darker ones are water-ice clouds that are deeper. Covered by various chemicals, the clouds are brought up from the deeper atmosphere and react with the sunlight. A combination of white and colored spots appears within the jet pattern. The result is storms that can persist for many years. The banded structure created from the jet streams breaks down near the poles, where the impeccable pattern of vortices has recently been revealed by NASA spacecraft. Whereas the jet streams on Earth can vary with only one or two, on average, in each hemisphere, Jupiter can have at least 30. Reaching speeds up to 300 miles per hour, the 30 jet streams rip across the planet in opposite directions.

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This view of Jupiter’s atmosphere from NASA’s Juno spacecraft includes something remarkable: two storms caught in the act of merging. Photo Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSSImage

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Jupiter also rotates differentially, meaning that the equator moves at a different speed compared to the poles. The planet’s jet streams can reach approximately 3,000 km down. The differentially rotating jet-stream layer contains about one percent of the planet’s total mass.  Below the jet stream layer, the world appears to turn more like a solid ball. Jupiter’s weather layer, which is the part where sunlight is absorbed and clouds form, is only about 100 km deep. However, the atmospheric flows below the familiar light zones, and the dark belts go 30 times deeper. That supports the long-standing theory that Jupiter’s interior contains jet streams that form a series of nested cylinders. 

13. Neptune has the strongest winds in the solar system, with speeds exceeding 1,100 miles per hour.

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Neptune is the eighth and farthest planet from the sun. Photo Credit: Dotted Yeti/Shutterstock

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Details from NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft made the first and only close-up observations of Neptune. The detailed images showed bright, white clouds and two storms that were ravaging the planet’s atmosphere. Neptune is a gas giant that is composed primarily of hydrogen and helium. Methane gas makes up only one or two percent of the atmosphere. On Earth, the sun’s energy is what drives the winds. However, Neptune is about 30 times farther away from the sun than we are. The gap between Neptune and its parent star is a shocking two billion miles wide. With that information, you might assume that the planet should have weak or nonexistent winds. However, the opposite is that reality reflects on the mysterious composition of this truly alien planet.

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Jet streams on the planet Neptune. Credit: Yohai Kaspi/Weizmann Institute of Science/NASA

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The significant components of Neptune are heavier elements. Beneath a sparse outer layer of helium, hydrogen, and methane, Neptune has a thick mantle. This layer is loaded with slushy ice and a combination of ammonia and methane. Neptune, similar to Jupiter and Saturn, emits more energy than it receives from the sun. Even with that taken into consideration, Neptune is considered the solar system’s coldest planet. In addition to its incredible winds, Neptune is home to many storms that appear in darker regions. The storms, such as the Great Dark Spot, can grow larger than planet Earth. They can also last years to a decade.

12. Massive dust tornadoes can quickly take over the entire planet of Mars. 

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Dust storms on Mars can cover the entire planet. The smaller wind patterns can also kick up what is referred to as dust devils or desert tornadoes. Photo Credit: Jurik Peter/Shutterstock

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Dust devils on Mars form in the same way that they do in deserts on Earth. You need intense surface heating so that the ground can get hotter than the air above it. The heated, less dense air close to the ground rises and punches the layer of cooler, dense air above. The result is rising plumes of hot air and falling plumes of cool air that circulate vertically in convection cells. If a horizontal wind gust happens to blow through, the convection cells are then turned on their sides and begin spinning horizontally. That forms vertical columns and starts a dust devil. The hot air that rises through the center of the column powers over the whirling air fast enough to pick up sand. The sand that lays on the ground then dislodges the flour-fine dust, and the column of hot air rising transmits that dust all around.

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Dust tornadoes on Mars can cover the entire planet. The smaller wind patterns can also kick up what is referred to as dust devils or desert tornadoes. Photo Credit: Jurik Peter/Shutterstock

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Once the horizontal winds begin pushing the dust devil across the ground, you will want to watch out! Actual dust devils have been photographed from orbit. The dust devils gain their charge from grains of sand and dust rubbing together in the whirlwind. When specific materials rub together, one material gives up some of its electrons to the other material. Since the rising central column of hot air that powers the dust devil carries the negatively-charged dust upward and leaves the heavier positively-charged sand swirling near the base, the charges get separated, creating an electric field. The dust devils are so large that they have been said to be responsible for throwing so much dust into the Martian atmosphere that it might be carrying negative charges high up into the atmosphere as well. 

11. Scientists have discovered a cold region on Venus that can turn carbon dioxide into ice or snow.

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Although Venus’s surface is similar to that of a red-hot furnace, snow has been discovered on the planet. Photo Credit: MattL_Images/Shutterstock

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The surface of Venus can get extremely hot. However, the conditions at an extremely high altitude have different climates and weather patterns. There has been revealed to be a very frigid layer that has a temperature of negative 283 degrees Fahrenheit. The unexpected cold layer is far colder than any part of Earth’s atmosphere, even though Venus is much closer to the sun. The discovery was uncovered by studying light from the sun as it passed through the atmosphere, revealing the concentration of carbon dioxide gas molecules at various altitudes along the terminator. The terminator is the dividing line between the night and day sides of the planet. With their extensive knowledge about the concentration of carbon dioxide and information on atmospheric pressure at each height, scientists could calculate the corresponding temperatures.

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The cloudy surface of planet Venus. Photo Credit: Aphelleon/Shutterstock

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Since the temperatures at some of the heights go below the freezing temperatures of carbon dioxide, which is the main constituent of the atmosphere, carbon dioxide ice might form. The formation of carbon dioxide ice could result in the construction of clouds of ice or snow particles. The information also showed that the cold layer above the terminator is situated between two warm layers. The temperature profiles on the day and night sides are incredibly different, but because the terminator is caught in the middle, it is impacted by both sides. The night side might play a more significant role at one altitude and the dayside at other altitudes. This situation is unique to Venus. 

10. Mars is a small, barren planet with a thin atmosphere composed of 95 percent carbon dioxide. 

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Mars can be viewed as a harsh, cold world. The temperature on Mars is much colder than on Earth. Photo Credit: Jurik Peter/Shutterstock

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The atmosphere on Mars is 100 times thinner than Earth’s. Without a thermal blanket, Mars is unable to retain any heat energy. On average, the temperature on Mars is roughly negative 80 degrees Fahrenheit. In the winter, the temperatures can get down to minus 195 degrees Fahrenheit near the poles. However, on a summer day, the temperatures might get up to 70 degrees Fahrenheit. At night, the temperature can drop down to a shocking minus 100 degrees Fahrenheit.  Frost forms on the rocks at night. However, as dawn approaches and the air gets warmer, the frost turns to vapor. There is a shocking 100 percent humidity until it evaporates.

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Mars’ surface atmosphere. Photo Credit: Stockbym/Shutterstock

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The high humidity can make Mars more habitable if the water condenses to form short-term puddles in the early morning hours. The moisture levels of Mars is tied to temperature fluctuations. At night the relative humidity levels can rise to 80 to 100 percent, with the air sometimes reaching atmospheric saturation. However, the daytime air is far drier due to the water temperatures. Similar to Earth, Mars has four seasons because the planet tilts on its axis. The seasons do vary in length because of the planet’s orbit around the sun. In the northern hemisphere, spring is the longest season at seven months. Summer and fall are both around six months, and winter is a mere four months long. During a Martian summer, the polar ice cap, composed mainly of carbon dioxide ice, shrinks and may disappear altogether. When winter comes, the ice cap grows back. There may even be some liquid water trapped beneath the carbon dioxide ice sheets. 

9. Corot-7b is hot enough to melt rock and pebbles rain into the lakes of molten lava below.

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Corot-7b is a rocky planet that is significantly different from Earth. Photo Credit: Johan Swanepoel/Shutterstock

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The unusual rocky world was the first planet that was found orbiting around the start Corot-7. The Corot-7b is less than twice the size of Earth and only five times its mass. This object’s only atmosphere is produced from vapor from hot molten silicates in a lava lake or lava ocean. The star-facing side has a temperature of about 4,220 degrees Fahrenheit. That’s hot enough to vaporize rocks. The global average temperature of Earth is only 59 degrees Fahrenheit. The side in perpetual shadow is incredibly chilly at negative 369 degrees Fahrenheit.

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Artist’s impression of CoRoT-7b. Photo Credit: L. Calçada/ESO

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Sodium, potassium, silicon monoxide, and oxygen make up most of the atmosphere. However, there are also smaller amounts of other elements found in silicate rock. That includes magnesium, aluminum, calcium, and iron. Oxygen is the most abundant element in stone, but you end up producing more oxygen when you vaporize rock. The peculiar atmosphere has its singular weather. As you go higher, the atmosphere gets cooler. Eventually, you will become saturated with different rock types in the same way you get saturated with water in Earth’s atmosphere. However, instead of a water cloud forming and then raining water droplets, there is a rock cloud that forms, and it starts to rain little pebbles of different types of rock. Even more interestingly, the kind of rock condensing out of the cloud depends on the altitude. 

8. Triton, Neptune’s bizarre moon, have active ice volcanoes that spew frozen nitrogen and methane.

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Triton is a moon slightly smaller than Earth’s moon. It has been said to be geologically active. Photo Credit: Dotted Yeti/Shutterstock

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Triton’s surface is full of large and small volcanos that regularly erupt in the solar system. Triton’s icy surface’s first detailed images said that cryogenic volcanism, which occurs at super cold temperatures, is the most reasonable explanation for the dark plumes. The active ice volcanoes are said to be as high as 20 miles. The discovery of the ice volcanoes is shocking because Triton was believed to be a dead moon. Triton is so cold that its volcanic activity is driven by fluid ice and compounds such as nitrogen, changing from a solid to a liquid to a gas. The moon’s volcanism is exceptionally similar to that on Earth except that it is icy.

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Artistic rendering of Ice volcanoes on Triton. Photo Credit: SciencePhoto/Shutterstock

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The volcanoes on Triton appear to be a gentler version of the volcanoes on Earth. The frozen nitrogen and methane that spew out of Triton’s volcanoes are caught in the moon’s light winds and are gently deposited in a path up to 45 miles away from the vents – which can be up to two miles in diameter. The gas quickly refreezes as crystals that likely form a mushroom cloud that is caught in Triton’s thin atmosphere and deposited downwind. The atmospheric haze that the spacecraft discovered above Triton may have been produced by volcanic eruptions. The driving force behind Triton’s volcanoes appears to be nitrogen. If the temperature below the surface of Triton warms up by less than 20 degrees, the liquid nitrogen explodes into a gas that erupts through the surface with volcanic force.  

7. Wolf 1061c is tidally locked and has one side in permanent sunlight, and the other stuck in darkness. 

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The closest potentially habitable planet ever found is Wolf 1061c. Photo Credit: NASA-Images/Shutterstock

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The newly discovered planet, Wolf 1061c, sits alongside two other worlds. It is one of the nearest stars to the sun. It is said to be rocky, similar to Mars. Wolf 1061c has a mass that is slightly over four times the mass of Earth and orbits its star every 18 days. Wolf 1061c is too hot for life, but the Wolf 1061c star is much cooler than our sun. Due to the planet being tidally locked, one side will always be facing the star. This positioning changes the circumstances on the surface of the planet substantially. It leads to one extremely hot side and one very cold side. Scientists have discovered that the hot side’s heat is circulating to the cold side due to the high winds that travel between them. In between those two extreme sides is a narrow band with a surprisingly pleasant climate.

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This artist’s concept illustrates a young, red dwarf star “Wolf 1061c” surrounded by three planets. Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons

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Of all the alien worlds, Wolf 1061c is the only one that is potentially habitable. When scientists are searching for planets that could sustain life, they are essentially looking for a planet with nearly identical properties to Earth. In short, the conditions would have to be just right. The planet cannot be too far or too close to its parent star. If it is too close, it would be too hot. If it is too far away, then it may be too cold, and water would freeze. Wolf 1061c’s orbit changes at a much faster rate, which means that the climate there could be quite chaotic. It could cause the frequency of the planet freezing over or heating up to be quite severe.

6. Jupiter is a stormy planet that is best known for its Great Red Spot. 

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When astronomers first discovered Jupiter, they also quickly noticed a reddish spot on the giant planet. Photo Credit: Janez Volmajer/Shutterstock

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The Great Red Spot has been present in Jupiter’s atmosphere for more than 300 years. It is now known that the Great Red Spot is a storm that is spinning like a cyclone. Unlike a low-pressure hurricane, the Red Spot rotates in a counterclockwise direction in the southern hemisphere, showing a high-pressure system. The winds inside this storm reach speeds of 270 miles per hour. The Red Spot is the largest known storm in the solar system. It is almost twice the size of the entire Earth. The long lifetime of the Red Spot is likely because Jupiter is a mainly gaseous planet. It possibly has liquid layers but lacks a solid surface, which would dissipate the storm’s energy. However, the Red Spot does change its shape, size, and color, sometimes dramatically.

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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot. Photo Credit: NASA/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt/Seán Doran

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Like Earth, Jupiter’s storms tend to form closer to the equator and then drift toward the poles. Since Jupiter has no land, there is much less friction because there is nothing to rub against. There’s just more gas underneath the clouds. Jupiter also has heat leftover from its formation comparable to the heat it gets from the sun. The temperature difference between its equator and its poles are not as great as on Earth. A geometric arrangement of storms would form if the storms were surrounded by a ring of winds turning in the opposite direction from the spinning storms. The presence of these anticyclonic rings causes the storms to repel each other rather than merge. 

5. One of Jupiter’s moons, Europa, has been said to have a saltwater ocean.

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Like Earth’s seas, the icy moon’s subsurface ocean, Europa, contains sodium chloride. Photo Credit: Jurik Peter/Shutterstock

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Researchers have identified that sodium chloride, the stuff in table salt, exists on Europa’s surface. Europa’s surface is covered in a 62-mile saltwater ocean enclosed in a layer of ice. Since the exterior is essentially formed with frozen seawater, the discovery suggests that Europa’s hidden sea is drenched in table salt. That is an essential piece in understanding the possibilities for life in the alien world. To analyze Europa’s composition, astronomers study the light emanating from its surface, splitting into a rainbow-like spectrum. However, as you already know, ordinary table salt is white and gives off a featureless spectrum. For years, astronomers have also argued that another type of salt, magnesium sulfate, was present on Europa’s surface. Europa’s seas could ultimately prove to be too salty for life as we know it to exist there.

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3D illustration of Europa satellite Jupiter. Photo Credit: Whitelion61/Shutterstock

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A more equitable mixture of water and salt could allow life to thrive there, especially if the ocean is as active as our own. The water gets pulled into the seafloor around the hydrothermal vents. Then, it is jettisoned back out from the vents themselves on Earth. In the process, magnesium is captured within the rocks, whereas sodium and chlorine escape. Europa’s table-salt surface could suggest that the moon’s seawater is cycled similarly and even point towards hydrothermal vents. If this is true and an accurate representation of the ocean’s composition, then Europa’s ocean would be more similar to what we see on Earth. However, scientists could not quite say what the quantities of salt are beneath the ice. 

4. Auroras from neutron stars are created on planets, including Draugr. 

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The planet Draugr, also known as part of PSR B1257+12, orbits a pulsar. Photo Credit: Krissanapong Wongsawarng/Shutterstock

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PSR 1257+12 was first discovered in 1992. It is a pulsar that is located 2,300 lightyears away from the sun. The pulsar contains a planetary system with three known extrasolar planets. The planet Draugr gets its name from a monstrous undead creature from mythology. It is one of three small, rocky planets. When a massive star explodes, its core forms a neutron star, an Earth-sized object with ridiculously high density. However, scientists don’t expect planets around giant stars to sustain stellar explosions. Nor do they expect them to keep orbiting the newly formed neutron stars. However, three worlds are doing just that around the neutron star, PSR B1257+12.

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Artist’s impression of the planets orbiting PSR B1257+12. Photo Credit: Wikipedia

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The neutron stars emit a lot of harmful radiation, including x-rays and gamma rays severely damaging to life on Earth. The three planets going around the neutron star, Ergo, are consistently bathed in radiation. The planets are considered to be as lifeless as planets can be. Planets that are around neutron stars might be a pretty sight from a distance. The neutron star’s radiation can create dazzling auroras on the worlds, similar to Earth and Jupiter. The discovery of planets around a pulsar was unexpected, considering that a pulsar could host planetary companions. 

3. Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system, although it is not the closest planet to the sun. 

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Venus is the second planet from the sun and is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty. Photo Credit: NASA images/Shutterstock

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The interior of Venus is made of a metallic iron core that is roughly 2,400 miles wide. Its molten rocky mantle is approximately 1,200 miles thick. Although Venus is not the planet closest to the sun, its dense atmosphere traps heat in a runaway version of the greenhouse effect that warms Earth. As a result, temperatures on Venus reach 880 degrees Fahrenheit, which is more than hot enough to melt lead. Any spacecraft that has landed on the planet only lasted a few hours before being destroyed. Venus’s atmosphere consists mainly of carbon dioxide with clouds of sulfuric acid and only trace amounts of water.

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Hot lava flows on Venus. Photo Credit: Jurik Peter/Shutterstock

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The surface of Venus is arid. Ultraviolet rays from the sun evaporate water quickly, keeping the planet in a prolonged molten state. There is no liquid water on its surface today because the scorching heat created by its ozone-filled atmosphere would cause the water just to boil away. Venus is brighter than any other planet or even any star in the night sky because of its highly reflective clouds and closeness to our planet. However, Venus takes 243 Earth days to rotate on its axis, which is the slowest of any major planets. Unusual stripes in the upper clouds of Venus are referred to as ultraviolet absorbers because they strongly absorb light in the blue and ultraviolet wavelengths. They are soaking up a tremendous amount of energy. Roughly two-thirds of Venus’s surface is covered by flat, smooth plains marred by thousands of volcanoes. 

2. Scientists have found a layered mix of ice and sand that represents the last traces of long-lost polar ice caps on Mars.

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You might be shocked to learn that vast amounts of water ice have been spotted on Mars. Photo Credit: Flashinmirror/Shutterstock

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Remnants of ancient ice sheets have been found buried a mile beneath Mars’ North Pole. The team found layers of sand and ice that were as much as 90 percent water in some places. If melted, the newly discovered ice would be equal to a global layer of water around Mars that is at least five feet deep, which could be one of the largest water reservoirs on the planet. The layers of ice is a record of past climate on Mars in much the same way that tree rings are a record of past climate on Earth. They suspect the layers formed when ice accumulated at the poles during past ice ages on Mars.

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Mars’ polar ice cap. Photo Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

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Each time the planet warmed, a remnant of the ice caps became covered by sand, which protected the ice from solar radiation and prevented it from dissipating into the atmosphere. Shockingly, the total volume of water locked up in these buried polar deposits is roughly the same as all the water known to exist in glaciers and buried ice layers at lower latitudes on Mars. Studying this unique weather pattern and record of past polar glaciation could help determine whether Mars was ever habitable. Understanding how much water was available globally versus what is trapped in the poles is vital if you’re going to have liquid water on Mars. There can be all the right conditions for life, but if most of the water is locked up at the poles, it becomes challenging to have suitable amounts of liquid near the equator. 

1. Saturn has a unique weather pattern of psychedelic clouds that are driven by internal heating. 

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Photos of Saturn have depicted a swirling combination of green, blue, and purple clouds. Photo Credit: Dima Zel/Shutterstock

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Saturn rotates extremely fast but takes a little over 29 years to make one revolution around the sun. It is hard to determine the number of moons revolving around Saturn because it is difficult to distinguish between tiny moons and the numerous ice chunks composing Saturn’s smaller ringlets. As one of the four gas giants, Saturn’s atmosphere is similar to that of Jupiter’s. The atmosphere is mostly composed of hydrogen with lesser amounts of helium and even smaller methane and ammonia quantities.

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Artist’s illustration of NASA’s Cassini spacecraft plummeting through Saturn’s atmosphere on Sept. 15, 2017. Photo Credit: NASA

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Discovered by Voyage in 1981, the cloud pattern at Saturn’s north pole continues to amaze scientists. The lower-altitude hexagon may influence what happens above. Saturn’s cloud levels host the majority of the planet’s weather, including the pre-existing north polar hexagon. Scientists have identified that the points of the hexagon rotate around its center at almost the same rate Saturn rotates on its axis. Besides, a jet stream air current flows eastward at up to 220 miles per hour. Roughly seven years ago, an image of the storm was taken to demonstrate its unusual composition. Nothing like the hexagon has been seen in any other world. It is about 20,000 miles wide and approximately 60 miles down into Saturn’s atmosphere. 

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