Uranus could be more interesting than we thought, says Nasa

However, this is not the status quo for Uranus, as it is only hit by such a solar barrage four per cent of the time, Nasa scientists now think. This new study shows that a lot of the planet’s bizarre behaviour can be explained by the scale of the space weather event that occurred during that visit,” said Dr William Dunn, from UCL, the study author. “We now know even less than we thought about what a typical day in the Uranian system might look like and are even more in need of a second spacecraft to visit to truly understand this mysterious, icy world.” The revelation that Uranus may not be as barren as previously thought means astronomers now think it is possible that there could be a water ocean on one of the Uranus moons. Dr Dunn added: “A big piece of evidence against there being oceans on Uranus’s moons was the lack of detection of any water-related particles around the planet – Voyager 2 didn’t find water ions.