Trench-like features on Uranus’s moon Ariel may be windows to its interior

Last year, a study led by planetary scientist Richard Cartwright at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, proposed that deposits of carbon dioxide ice and other carbon-bearing molecules on Uranus’s moon Ariel likely originated from chemical processes inside the moon—possibly even from a subsurface ocean. Last year, a study led by planetary scientist Richard Cartwright at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, proposed that deposits of carbon dioxide ice and other carbon-bearing molecules on Uranus’s moon Ariel likely originated from chemical processes inside the moon—possibly even from a subsurface ocean. Planetary Sciences Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories