Ariel's oribital wobbles (VIDEO)

University of Texas at Austin

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An animation demonstrating how Uranus’s moon Ariel might wobble with an interior ocean (right) versus being solid through to the core (left). The depicted wobbles are exaggerated. A UTIG-developed computer model can calculate the thickness of the ocean and overlying ice (lighter colored layer) by analyzing the wobble and combining it with other measurements.

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Doug Hemingway

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