Uranus
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As the moon travels around Uranus, gravitational forces repeatedly stretch and squeeze it, potentially placing enough stress on the surface to cause large fractures.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
Last year, the same research team reported similar results for Miranda, another icy moon orbiting Uranus.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
The uncertainty in funding has put on hold future missions to Uranus, Venus and Enceladus, and a return of rock and soil samples from Mars, Dreier said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
This year, it coincides with the start of the Uranus return, an event only some people experience in their lifetime since it takes the planet roughly 84 years to orbit the sun.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
His “Cosmic Mystery” was disproved entirely by the much later discoveries of the planets Uranus, Neptune and Pluto—there are no additional platonic solids' that would determine their distances from the sun.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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