Lecture 38: The Ice Giants - Uranus and Neptune
The Ice Giants Uranus and Neptune are the outermost major planets of our\nSolar System. Internally they small rocky cores surrounded by deep,\nslushy ice mantles and shallow hydrogen atmospheres, quite unlike the\nmassive cores and deep metallic hydrogen mantles of Jupiter and Saturn.\nThis lecture describes their basic properties: the origin of their vivid\nblue/green colors, their composition, structure, and weather. At the\nend we'll contrast and compare their properties to those of the Gas\nGiants. Recorded 2007 Nov 15 in 1000 McPherson Lab on the Columbus\ncampus of The Ohio State University.