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OTD In Space – January 24: Voyager 2 Flies Past Uranus
NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus. This was the first time any spacecraft had ever visited Uranus. Its twin ...
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Voyager 2 is the only craft to visit Uranus. Its findings may have misled us for 40 years.
A lone spacecraft's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years. The strange, sideways-rotating planet – the third largest in our ...
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Planet Uranus
However, unlike Saturn, Uranus and its rings are 'tilted' almost completely sideways, like a spinning top that has fallen over. This means that as the planet orbits the Sun, each of its poles ...
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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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It has a greenish appearance and is often referred to as the ‘sideways Planet’. It is seventh from the sun. Pupils could use this clip to learn about Uranus’ main features. Afterwards ...