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Lecture 38: The Ice Giants - Uranus and Neptune
The Ice Giants Uranus and Neptune are the outermost major planets of our
Solar System. Internally they small rocky cores surrounded by deep,
slushy ice mantles and shallow hydrogen atmospheres, quite unlike the
massive cores and deep metallic hydrogen mantles of Jupiter and Saturn.
This lecture describes their basic properties: the origin of their vivid
blue/green colors, their composition, structure, and weather. At the
end we'll contrast and compare their properties to those of the Gas
Giants. Recorded 2007 Nov 15 in 1000 McPherson Lab on the Columbus
campus of The Ohio State University.
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The Ice Giants Uranus and Neptune are the outermost major planets of our
Solar System. Internally they small rocky cores surrounded by deep,
slushy ice mantles and shallow hydrogen atmospheres, quite unlike the
massive cores and deep metallic hydrogen mantles of Jupiter and Saturn.
This lecture describes their basic properties: the origin of their vivid
blue/green colors, their composition, structure, and weather. At the
end we'll contrast and compare their properties to those of the Gas
Giants. Recorded 2007 Nov 15 in 1000 McPherson Lab on the Columbus
campus of The Ohio State University.
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