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about the size of a Volkswagen bug with

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extremely long antennas this robotic

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outer space Explorer called Voyager has

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dazzled scientists and laymen with

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photographs of planets in our solar

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system first traveling to Jupiter and to

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Saturn and now to Uranus Voyager has

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travelled a distance of 2 billion miles

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from Earth recently we have seen

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photographs from the little known world

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of Uranus appearing like a fuzzy

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blue-green tennis ball tipped on its

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side Uranus conceals its secrets under

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an atmosphere of hydrogen and helium

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it's southern polar region sits under a

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thin layer of haze produced by the

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action of sunlight much as smog is

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produced in our major cities scientists

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feel that Uranus has a very deep ocean

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of electrically conductive water that

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forms the planet's magnetic field and

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hosts a rocky inner core about the size

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of Earth it has been recently found that

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the magnetic field is largely offset

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from the planets center besides pointing

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at scientific sensors and TV cameras at

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Uranus and it's charcoal black rings

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Voyager discovered 10 new moons making a

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total of 15 known to circle the planet

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the close flyby of the moon Miranda

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proved to be one of the most exciting

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highlights of the encounter according to

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Voyager project manager dick laser we

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had worked so hard to make sure that

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those frames as those pictures would be

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exactly where we wanted them when that

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when the first of the series the miranda

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images amen and it clipped the corner of

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the satellite just where it was supposed

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to it was that sense of oh my god we did

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it and then I started looking at the

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substance of the pictures that varied

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topography

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really wild stuff Miranda is a blend of

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all the exotic surfaced topographies

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found in our solar system wrapped into

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according to Voyager project scientist

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dr. edward stone what was surprising was

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the extent and the diversity of the

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geologic processes which were evident on

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the surface where it's much too cold to

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melt anything yet somehow that surface

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has moved has been reshaped by an

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internal heat source of unknown

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magnitude in the image processing lab at

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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in

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Pasadena California voyager imaging

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scientist dr. Terrence Johnson reviews

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Miranda's most dramatic feature an icy

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Rift Valley with sheer cliffs over ten

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miles high looking across here you're

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looking at cross something that's at

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saying what is ten times deeper than the

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Grand Canyon now in deep space Voyager

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is on a three-year journey to Neptune as