While there are countless reasons to visit other celestial bodies in the solar system—to inspect potentially life-supporting plumes on Endeladus, for example—there’s one relatively minor bonus to ...
Imagine a tiny dusty moon, about one-seventh the size of our planet’s, with polygonal topographical features extending for hundreds of miles, and cliffs taller than any you’d find anywhere on Earth.
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Uranus radiation belts tied to an ancient solar wind blast
Far from the Sun, Uranus has long looked like a quiet, teal marble in the dark. Yet a reexamination of decades old spacecraft readings now points to a violent episode in its past, when a blast of ...
Far from the Sun, Uranus sits tipped on its side, carrying a magnetic system unlike any other planet’s. Its equator tilts about 97.
WASHINGTON, Nov 11 (Reuters) - In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope. This frigid planet, our solar system's ...
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