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On July 24, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reported evidence of a liquid ocean buried under Ariel’s surface, supplying CO2 to the world above.
Ariel
Ariel is the fourth-largest moon of Uranus
Ariel was discovered Oct. 24, 1851 by William Lassell, one of 19th century England's grand amateur astronomers
Ariel orbits and rotates in the equatorial plane of Uranus, which is almost perpendicular to the orbit of Uranus and so has an extreme seasonal cycle
Ariel keeps the same face toward Uranus as it orbits the planet (just as our Moon keeps the same face always toward Earth)
Much of the detailed knowledge of Ariel derives from a single flyby of Uranus performed by the space probe Voyager 2 (NASA) in 1986, which managed to image around 35% of the moon's surface
Ariel is the name for a character in both Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and Pope's poem “The Rape of the Lock.”
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