Webb Maps Uranus' Upper Atmosphere
• 1 min read Webb Maps Uranus’ Upper Atmosphere Monika Luabeya NASA Webb Telescope Team NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope provided the first vertical view of Uranus’s ionosphere in
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Miranda's Unlikely Ocean Has Us Asking If There's Life Clinging On Around Uranus
• Miranda, Uranus’ moon, may have once hosted a ≥100 km thick subsurface ocean. • Voyager 2 data reanalysis and computer modeling suggest recent geological activity. • Tidal heatin
First-ever 3D map of Uranus' upper atmosphere shows how magnetic field shapes auroras
• First-ever 3D map of Uranus’ upper atmosphere shows how magnetic field shapes auroras Uranus’ magnetic field is tilted by nearly 60 degrees and offset from the planet’s centre. •
Webb maps the mysterious upper atmosphere of Uranus
• For the first time, an international team of astronomers have mapped the vertical structure of Uranus’s upper atmosphere, uncovering how temperature and charged particles vary wi