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“We just need to go back” – Uranus’ moon Ariel may have hidden a 100-mile-deep ocean


Ariel, one of Uranus’ moons, may once have contained a subsurface ocean more than 100 miles deep beneath its fractured icy shell. The finding, combined with similar evidence from Miranda, suggests the distant Uranian system could harbor multiple hidden ocean worlds.

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