Why Do Uranus and Neptune Have Blue Methane Clouds but Jupiter

question 100

Multiple Choice

Why do Uranus and Neptune have blue methane clouds but Jupiter and Saturn do not?

• A)Methane does not condense into ice in the warmer atmospheric temperatures of Jupiter and Saturn.
• B)Methane did not exist in the solar nebula at the radii of Jupiter and Saturn when the planets formed.
• C)The greater gravitational force of Jupiter and Saturn prevents the methane from rising to the upper edges of the atmosphere.
• D)Methane reacts with the abundant ammonia clouds in Jupiter and Saturn.
• E)The relatively slow rotation of Uranus and Neptune allows methane to migrate to higher levels in the atmosphere and condense into clouds.

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