Trench-like features on Uranus's moon Ariel may be windows to its interior
Last year, a study led by planetary scientist Richard Cartwright at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in ...
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Uranus In 4K - James Webb Space Telescope Sees The Planet, Rings And Moons
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured amazing new imagery of Uranus along with its rings and moons. The footage shows ...
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Uranus's moon Ariel (IMAGE)
Ariel, Uranus’s fourth largest moon, is thought to be made of equal parts rock and ice. A new computer model developed at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics could be used to detect ...
Forbes5 个月
NASA’s Webb Telescope Finds Evidence For An Ocean World Around Uranus
New observations by the James Webb Space Telescope suggest that an icy moon around Uranus may have an underground liquid ocean. Ariel is one of 27 moons around Uranus, the seventh planet from the ...
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Ariel's oribital wobbles (VIDEO)
An animation demonstrating how Uranus’s moon Ariel might wobble with an interior ocean (right) versus being solid through to the core (left). The depicted wobbles are exaggerated. A UTIG ...
Business Today6 个月
'Carbon Oxides Ice': James Webb Telescope discovers unusual activity on Uranus' moon
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) found significant amounts of carbon dioxide ice on the surface of Uranus' moon Ariel. The carbon dioxide ice was discovered on the "trailing hemisphere" of ...