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1 posted on 02/09/2026 1:26:50 PM PST by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 02/09/2026 1:27:08 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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"the featured image of Uranus's 500-kilometer-wide moon."

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6 posted on 02/09/2026 2:02:12 PM PST by Macoozie (Roll MAGA, roll!)
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The Sun has been sending microbial life out into space via the solar wind for a billion years. It would not be particularly shocking to find such life on the other planets and moons of the solar system. In fact, one would expect it.


10 posted on 02/09/2026 2:41:47 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence." -Marx the Smarter (Groucho.))
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Uranus was quite boring when Voyager went by it. Because the planet is tilted almost 90 degrees something interesting happened. The pole pointed almost directly at the Sun! Half the planet in darkness for years and the other half lit up! This is a Hubble picture . Miranda was the most interesting thing about the fly by at the time. The theory was something big hit the moon busting it into pieces when then rejoined.

11 posted on 02/09/2026 3:02:10 PM PST by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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