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The yearning for Uranus: A far-out world with a tale to tellA proposed mission known as Uranus Orbiter and Probe would conduct a multiyear orbital tour to yield knowledge of ice giants ...
Studying how much the Uranian moons sway in orbit may reveal whether or not they have oceans inside of them. NASA is in the ...
A pale blue-green enigma, the planet Uranus has long fascinated astronomers precisely because of its extreme distance, some 1.6 billion miles (2.6 billion km) from Earth. While it is comparatively ...
On Earth, the dipole magnetic field that loops from the North Pole to the South Pole arises from convection in the planet’s liquid-iron outer core. Since Uranus and Neptune lack such a dipole field, ...
Uranus and Neptune's magnetic fields are a mess, discovered to be disorganized during NASA’s Voyager 2 flybys in the late 1980s. That chaotic structure pointed to something unusual inside the planets.
Both of the ice giant planets, Uranus and Neptune, lacked what's known as a "dipole magnetic field." This was in stark contrast to our own rocky world, as well as the two gas giants Jupitar and ...
The finding could also inform a proposed return to Uranus next decade by NASA. That orbiting spacecraft could carry instruments to measure the interior structure and magnetic field of Uranus that ...
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