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The new study could inform how a future mission might investigate Uranus' moons.
It's the most detailed look of the ice giant's ring system in decades.
This suggests "diamond rain" may be quite common on other planets.
The list also includes landing on Saturn’s moon Enceladus and getting the samples of Martian rock from the Perseverance rover.
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This process has been noted on other planets, but not Neptune until now.
Uranus' rings are thin and imperceptible to all but the largest telescopes.
The icy gas giant likely collided with a massive cosmic body about 4 billion years ago.
An astronaut in the midst of Uranus' top clouds would be able to smell a rotten egg-like stench -- if he didn't die first.
Yes, on some planets it rains diamonds!
Not all planets are as lucky as Earth.
Two dark shapes discovered around Uranus.
The most detailed observations of the icy world of Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun, show complex weather patterns and other features that scientists have yet to fully describe. Popular belief had Uranus depicted as a bland, pale green world based on the now iconic observations from Voyager’s 1986 flyby of the planet. Its […]
When Voyager 2 made its flyby near the planet of Uranus, astronomers got their first direct glimpse of what an aurora might look on the cold planet. However, such lights have never been observed from Earth – that is, until last year, when a team of scientists used careful planning and the Hubble Telescope to […]
Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun, is a definite oddball of the solar system. It has its axis titled by a whopping 98 degrees, which makes it orbit on its side. The general accepted theory is that a big impact with an object several times the size that of the Earth nodged its axis […]
A probe that has been launched no less than 30 years ago has come across a force that has baffled the scientific world and could rewrite the laws of physics. In 1983, Pioneer 10 took some photos of Jupiter, then left the solar system. However, it’s being pulled back to the Sun by a force […]
A new research published in Nature Physics showed that there may be oceans of diamonds (literally) on both Uranus and Neptune. The first ever study conducted on the melting point of diamond concluded that at that certain point, it behaves just like water, with the solid form floating in the liquid form (just imagine icebergs, […]
