OResearchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory believe there may be liquid water oceans on (at least) four of Uranus’ moons. The data were obtained via the Voyager 2 probe, which passed by the planet in the 1980s and analyzed five of the 27 largest moons.
According to these data, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and Oberon are the moons most likely to have water underneath the icy crust of these natural satellites. Researchers believe these moons are composed of layers of ice, rock and water, with the fifth – named Miranda – believed to be too small to keep heat inside.
It should be remembered that the possibility of having liquid water oceans on these natural satellites had already been raised with studies of the moons of Saturn and Jupiter, so further studies of probes sent to the regions of these planets will be necessary.
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