A Field Guide to the Planets
Season 1
Ep 15. Uranus: A Water World on Its Side
- TV-PG
- November 8, 2019
- 31 min
What a fascinating world Voyager 2 revealed in 1986 during its short flyby of Uranus! Learn why Uranus seems to orbit on its side surrounded by a delicate system of 13 rings and 27 moons, how we discovered its multi-polar magnetic field, and why scientists think Uranus might contain an ocean made of liquid diamond, with floating chunks of solid diamond-bergs!