Uranus and Neptune – The Forgotten Ice Giants
The last time a spacecraft visited Uranus or Neptune, it was 1986 and 1989 respectively, and nobody has been back since. This episode explores why these two outer worlds get lumped in together as "ice giants" rather than gas giants, Uranus's bizarre sideways tilt, Neptune's discovery through pure mathematics before anyone had even seen it through a telescope, supersonic winds, oddly lopsided magnetic fields, and the genuinely uncertain science of whether it might rain diamonds deep inside these planets.
You'll come away understanding what actually separates an ice giant from a gas giant, why…
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