It’s Time to Go Back to Uranus. What Questions do Scientists Have About the Ice Giants?

Universe Today ^ | JANUARY 23, 2024 | BY MARK THOMPSON

[Red Badger]

[Red Badger]

Ping!......................

[cgbg]

The Babylon Bee has got to look into this...

Lol.

[rdl6989]

Another Uranus thread? I’ll go pop some popcorn for the show.

[null and void]

Only here to hear the comments...

[CtBigPat]

Just waiting for the comments.

[mikey_hates_everything]

It's time to go back to Uranus

[Tell It Right]

V'ger needs the information.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Puns aside for once, Uranus and Neptune are both fascinating “ice giants” about which little is yet understood. Both bear signs of some disturbance to the solar system that likely produced the Late Heavy Bombardment era which left so many craters on the planets in the inner solar system, and possibly gave earth its oceans. Whatever happened tilted Uranus on its side and left Neptune with a giant moon in a retrograde orbit.

[Responsibility2nd]

And what about looking at the memes

[uranium penguin]

At this point, I am sure that if some scientist proposes a
“study of global warming impact, on Uranus”...

they will instantly get funded..

[one guy in new jersey]

[Eccl 10:2]

NASA, et al, REALLY need to get together and change the name of this thing.

[Dead Corpse]

Name the new research craft Thor and the probe onboard it drops into the atmosphere Mjölnir.

Only then will we really find anything out about Ice Giants.

[fwdude]

The “gay” planet.

[Red Badger]

My question is: Why are they both a relatively uniform blue, while Saturn and Jupiter are multicolored and banded?..................

[Sirius Lee]

I thought this was going to be about the 2023 Bruins.

[BigFreakinToad]

All for more exploration of the outer planets, of course I’ll likely be dead by the time they would arrive if sent today.

[Dr. Franklin]

In a woke world, probing Uranus is all they want to do. NASA is looking for Klingons there.

[Telepathic Intruder]

They're smaller, contain more volatile materials such as methane in their upper atmospheres, they're farther from the sun, and don't generate as much internal heat. That may have something to do with it. Interesting though that they're both approximately the same size and appearance.

By the way, it was recently revealed that Neptune's dark blue appearance is just an artifact of image enhancement due to the lower amount of sunlight in order to see more details in the upper atmosphere. To the human eye, it's actually the same light blue color that Uranus is.