Miranda: Uranus' Chaotic Moon and Its Hidd...

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MIRANDA: URANUS' CHAOTIC MOON AND ITS...

Deep space shelters celestial bodies that challenge our scientific logic in spectacular ways. At the cold edge of our Solar System, orbit...

WHAT HAPPENED

Recent studies led by planetary scientists at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory reevaluated Voyager 2's thermal and gravitatio...

CONTEXT AND HISTORY

Our only close contact with the Uranian system occurred on January 24, 1986. NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft performed a historic flyby, capt...

IMPACT FOR THE POPULATION

The discovery of liquid oceans on distant icy worlds radically changes our understanding of water and life in the universe. Traditionally...

WHAT THOSE INVOLVED SAY

Researchers emphasize that the small size of Miranda makes the preservation of a subsurface ocean even more astonishing. Dr. Tom Nordheim...

NEXT STEPS

The international scientific community is actively lobbying space agencies for a dedicated mission to the ice giant planets. NASA has ide...

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