{"id":3928865,"date":"2026-11-11T13:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T18:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/argon-on-uranus-and-neptune-may-reveal-more-about-their-origins-than-their-interiors\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T13:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T18:00:16","slug":"argon-on-uranus-and-neptune-may-reveal-more-about-their-origins-than-their-interiors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/argon-on-uranus-and-neptune-may-reveal-more-about-their-origins-than-their-interiors\/","title":{"rendered":"Argon on Uranus and Neptune may reveal more about their origins than their interiors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Measurements of an argon isotope could help scientists understand whether the interiors of Uranus and Neptune, our solar system&#8217;s so-called ice giants, are dominated by ice or rock. New research led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and published in The Planetary Science Journal measured the planets&#8217; atmospheric argon-40 to estimate the amount of rock found beneath their surfaces and search for clues about the planets&#8217; origins, including where and how they formed.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-11-argon-uranus-neptune-reveal-interiors.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Measurements of an argon isotope could help scientists understand whether the interiors of Uranus and Neptune, our solar system&#8217;s so-called ice giants, are dominated by ice or rock. New research led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and published in The Planetary Science Journal measured the planets&#8217; atmospheric argon-40 to estimate the amount of rock found [&#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-3928865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928865","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=3928865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}