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Ariel Research Project

By: Lauren Murphy

Ariel is one of the five major moons of the planet Uranus.

ARIEL

Where is Ariel?

Where is Ariel?

Ariel orbits Uranus, about 118,620 miles away from the middle of the planet, orbiting the planet takes about 2 and a half days.

When was Ariel Discovered?

The moon was discovered in 1851 by William Lassel.

When was it discovered?

Facts about Ariel

Facts about Ariel

  • Ariel claims to be the youngest of the Uranian moons, because of the majority of craters visible being small.
  • Ariel has the brightest surface out of all the uranian moons, but these moons do not reflect more than 30% of the suns light.
  • Ariels surface temperature is very scattered due to the coming and going of sunlight, so it will rise and drop frequently.

More Facts

More Facts

  • Thought to consist mostly of equal amounts of water ice and silicate rock.
  • Carbon dioxide has also been detected on Ariel
  • One day on Ariel is equal to 2.52 days on Earth.

Missions for Ariel

Missions to Ariel

In 1986, Voyager 2 collected images of Uranus´s 5 different moons, Ariel being one of them. These pictured different movement of the tectonic plates on the moon.

Sources

Works Cited

Carter, Jamie. "Uranus' mysterious moons: why NASA wants to explore Ariel and Miranda." The Planetary Society, 28 July 2022, www.planetary.org/articles/nasa-mission-uranus-moons-ariel-miranda. Accessed 22 May 2023.

Davis, Phil. "Ariel." Solar System Exploration, Nasa, 22 May 2023, solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/uranus-moons/ariel/in-depth/#:~:text=Ariel%27s%20surface%20appears%20to%20be,by%20much%20earlier%2C%20bigger%20strikes. Accessed 22 May 2023.

Fountain, Henry. "The Solar System." The New York Times. The New York Times, archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/uranus-index.html. Accessed 22 May 2023.

Stirone, Shannon. "Earth to Voyager 2: After a Year in the Darkness, We Can Talk to You Again." The New York Times. The New York Times, www.nytimes.com/2021/02/12/science/nasa-voyager-deep-space-network.html. Accessed 21 May 2023.

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