The Nation - News from May 20, 1986
The dark rings surrounding Uranus apparently formed after the planet did and may be the remnants of a crushed moon, scientists said at a seminar in Baltimore after analyzing results of the Voyager 2 spacecraft’s visit to the seventh planet. Four months after the robot craft skimmed within 50,600 miles of the blue-green planet’s cloud tops, researchers pulling together initial findings of the mission say Uranus and its moons have many features unique to the solar system.
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