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Uranus' new ring has scientists seeing blue.
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USA Today (Magazine)
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June 1, 2006
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Blue may be a color that most of us can feel, but the solar system's seventh planet is feeling it, too--in its recently discovered outermost ring, making it just the second known blue ring in the solar system.
Saturn's E ring is the only other known example of a blue planetary ring. The blue rings of Saturn and Uranus are associated with small moons.
Research by the Space Science Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, indicates that the particle...
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Uranus' New Ring Has Scientists Seeing Blue
USA Today
; SOLAR SYSTEM Blue may be a color that most of us can feel, but the solar system's seventh planet is feeling it, too-in its recently discovered outermost ring, making it just the second known blue ring in the solar system. Saturn's E ring is the only other known example of a blue ...
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