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What methods can be used to identify subsurface oceans on the five largest moons of Uranus: Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and ...
"Uranus is weird, so it's always been uncertain how much the magnetic field actually interacts with its satellites." ...
The moons that orbit Uranus are already known to have unusual characteristics: some are heavily cratered, others have ...
Information about Uranus is limited. What we know is that the planet is composed mainly of water and ammonia ice, its diameter is about 51,000 kilometers, about four times that of the Earth, and its ...
"Two Uranus years (one Uranus year is 84.02 Earth years), running from 1900 to 2068 and starting just before southern summer solstice, when Uranus’s south pole points almost directly towards the Sun," ...
Friday, July 4 Mercury reaches its greatest eastern elongation from the Sun, standing 26° from our star at 1 A.M. EDT. We’ll ...
The bright morning star Venus crosses from Aries into Taurus, closing in on Uranus for a conjunction later this week.