How Uranus and Neptune are key to unlocking how planets form - The Planetary Society

A flagship mission to the ice giants — Uranus and Neptune — will forever change our understanding of the origin and evolution of our solar system.

Clues to the origin and evolution of giant planets lie in the specific elements that make up their atmospheres, ones other than the hydrogen they amply inherited from the Suns disk. For example, nobl… [+3700 chars]

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