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Beyond the orbit of Saturn lie two worlds long thought to be identical siblings. Uranus and Neptune are virtually equal in size, but the two frigid giants turn out to be quite different from each other, each unique in our planetary system.
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HST was launched in 1990, but because of a flawed mirror, observations didn’t get started in earnest until a daring repair mission was carried out in 1993.
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Carroll, M. (2011). Uranus, Neptune, and Triton. In: Drifting on Alien Winds. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6917-0_9
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