- In August 2014 a group led by Imke de Pater pointed the Keck telescope at Uranus and were a little bit surprised to see storms raging. It wasn't as though clouds haven't been seen before, but the clouds they spotted last year were very much brighter than any seen before.
- The observations made by de Pater and her team are the first time this giant region of our solar system has been surveyed by modern telescopes from Earth. This is because of the very strange rotation, which makes Uranus pretty unique.
- Where is the energy to drive these storms coming from? That's the mystery.What this observation of these giant storms really does highlight, is just how little we know about our solar system's giant icy planets Uranus, and its neighbour Neptune.
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