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James Webb Space Telescope Takes First Peek Inside Uranus, Revealing Unexpected Atmospheric Layers

via ExtremeTech·Feb 23

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has turned its infrared gaze on Uranus, capturing unprecedented detail of the ice giant's atmosphere and revealing previously unknown atmospheric layers. The observations offer new insights into one of the solar system's most mysterious planets, which has only been visited once by the Voyager 2 flyby in 1986.

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