Uranus: testing Voyager 2's IQ.

From: Science News | Date: January 4, 1986| Author: Eberhart, Jonathan | Copyright information

Long before the dawn of civilization, early human beings probably emerged from their caves into the perilous night, looked up at a skyful of mysterious lights, and unknowingly saw Mars. Jupiter, too, more than three times as distant from the sun, was within their view, as was Saturn, nearly twice again as far, though the notion of their planethood, including its association with the sun, was yet unimagined. But there the solar system ended. Not even Galileo, eons later in the ea...

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