Carbon oxides on Uranus’ moon Ariel hint at hidden ocean, Webb telescope reveals

Uranus’ moon Ariel has a surprising amount of carbon dioxide ice on its trailing hemisphere, despite the moon’s distance from the Sun, where CO2 typically sublimates into gas.

Scientists had hypothesized that radiolysis—breakdown of molecules by ionizing radiation from Uranus’ magnetosphere—might be responsible.

However, a new study published on July 24 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters suggests an alternative: carbon dioxide and other molecules might be emerging from Ariel’s interior, possibly from a subsurface ocean, Phys.org has reported.

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