{"id":3926688,"date":"2026-06-26T19:03:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T00:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/uranus-neptune-may-be-magma-worlds-not-ice-giants\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T19:03:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T00:03:23","slug":"uranus-neptune-may-be-magma-worlds-not-ice-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/uranus-neptune-may-be-magma-worlds-not-ice-giants\/","title":{"rendered":"Uranus, Neptune may be magma worlds, not ice giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Uranus and Neptune remain two of the most mysterious objects in the solar system, primarily because they have been visited only by NASA&#8217;s Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1986 and 1989, respectively. Their &#8220;ice giant&#8221; moniker comes from longstanding hypotheses that their interiors are comprised of an icy mantle beneath their hydrogen-helium atmospheres. While Jupiter and Saturn are also composed primarily of hydrogen and helium, Uranus and Neptune are hypothesized to have a layered structure composed of icy elements in their interiors.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-06-uranus-neptune-magma-worlds-ice.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uranus and Neptune remain two of the most mysterious objects in the solar system, primarily because they have been visited only by NASA&#8217;s Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1986 and 1989, respectively. Their &#8220;ice giant&#8221; moniker comes from longstanding hypotheses that their interiors are comprised of an icy mantle beneath their hydrogen-helium atmospheres. While Jupiter and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3926688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3926688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3926688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3926688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3926688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}