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  • Huge Water Oceans Might Be Lurking Deep Within Uranus And Neptune

    11/27/2024 9:43:56 AM PST · by Red Badger · 42 replies
    IFL Science ^ | November 27, 2024 | Dr. Alfredo Carpineti
    The peculiar layers could explain the ice giants' magnetic peculiarities. Uranus (left) and Neptune (right) are the ice blue giants in the outer Solar System. Image credit: Patrick Irwin/University of Oxford/NASA Uranus and Neptune were only visited once by human spacecraft when Voyager 2 passed by them almost 40 years ago. During those visits, scientists measured peculiar magnetic fields unlike those seen around other planets. A recent paper suggests that the Uranus measurements might have been messed up by the Sun, but in general, it has been difficult to explain the behavior. New research suggests that the magnetic weirdness might...