The telescope observed the ice giant for a full rotation, revealing how temperature and charged particles vary with altitude.
"This is a crucial step towards characterizing giant planets beyond our solar system." ...
"Two Uranus years (one Uranus year is 84.02 Earth years), running from 1900 to 2068 and starting just before southern summer solstice, when Uranus’s south pole points almost directly towards the Sun," ...
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