A day at Uranus just got a little longer.
A day at Uranus just got a little longer.
Scientists reported Monday that observations by the Hubble Space Telescope have confirmed it takes Uranus 17 hours, 14 minutes and 52 seconds to complete a full rotation. That’s 28 seconds longer than estimates by NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft in the 1980s.
A French-led team studied a decade’s worth of aurora observations at the ice giant to track its magnetic poles.
