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This material causes Titania and Oberon to have darker and redder leading hemispheres. These outer moons effectively shield ...
NASA scientists found evidence of darkness on the 'leading side' of Uranus' moons, which they expected to be bright.
Based on data from NASA's Voyager 2 flyby in 1986 and decades of modeling, scientists expected the trailing hemispheres of ...
Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope went looking for evidence of one phenomenon and found quite another.
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Uranus’ moons are darker on their leading sides due to space dust, not radiation damage. Titania and Oberon show cosmic “bug splatter,” changing how we understand this tilted world’s mysterious ...
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Instead, they found no evidence for darkening on the moons’ trailing sides, and clear evidence for darkening of the leading ...