Uranus and Neptune: Atmospheres, Ionospheres, and Magnetospheres

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 2333. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Solar System, Planetary Physics

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Nearly the entire mass of URANUS and NEPTUNE consists of gas, much like the other gas giant planets Jupiter and Saturn. Therefore Neptune and Uranus might be regarded as essentially all atmosphere, although it is conventional to limit the definition to the outermost layers. In a tenuous outer layer of the atmosphere we find the ionosphere (see PLANETARY IONOSPHERES), where ultraviolet light and o...

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