8 results for “ice giant”
Planets & the Solar System
Uranus and Neptune
giants closer in. Uranus and Neptune are ice giants, and they may be the most common
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Planets & the Solar System
Jupiter
ice several times Earth's mass, though NASA's Juno spacecraft has found it may be oddly diffuse, as if a giant
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Space & the Universe
Exoplanets: Worlds Around Other Stars
ice or gas. A zoo of worlds Our solar system turned out to be a poor guide to what is out there. The very first discoveries were "hot Jupiters", giant
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Planets & the Solar System
Mercury and Venus
ice hiding in them, delivered by comets and preserved for billions of years just a few hundred kilometres from the blazing dayside. Mercury's surface looks like the Moon, covered in craters
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Planets & the Solar System
The Moon
giant impact basins between about 3.1 and 3.8 billion years ago, when the Moon's interior was still hot. The whole surface is coated in a layer of fine grey dust
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Animals
Whales and Dolphins
giant squid two kilometres down in total darkness, holding its breath for over an hour. Baleen whales do not echolocate but sing. Humpback males produce long, structured songs, with repeated themes
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Planets & the Solar System
Saturn
giant Saturn is the second largest planet, about nine times Earth's diameter, and like Jupiter it is a ball of hydrogen and helium with no solid surface. It is noticeably less
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Planets & the Solar System
Mars
Giants of rock Because Mars has low gravity and, for most of its history, no moving crustal plates, its volcanoes stayed in one place and grew enormous. Olympus Mons rises about
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