{"id":800916,"date":"2026-02-27T11:24:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T16:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=800916"},"modified":"2026-02-27T11:24:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T16:24:35","slug":"the-impact-of-impacts-the-planetary-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=800916","title":{"rendered":"The impact of impacts | The Planetary Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>An ancient impact may have briefly made Umbriel cryovolcanic.<\/strong> Uranus\u2019 dark, heavily cratered moon Umbriel has long been considered geologically inactive. But a new study suggests it may have experienced a period of cryovolcanic activity \u2014 perhaps the result of a massive impact. Adeene Denton, lead author on the study, joins this week\u2019s Planetary Radio to discuss the findings and what it means for the Uranus system. <i>Pictured: A mosaic of images of Uranus and several of its moons. Image credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/planetary.s3.amazonaws.com\/assets\/email\/newsletter\/email-tps-logo-small.png\" alt=\"Planetary Society logo bullet\" class=\"inline align-middle h-5 w-5 float-left mr-1 mt-1\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Catch up on The Planetary Society Book Club.<\/strong> On Thursday, March 5, book club members will be joined by Sir Peter Beck, founder and CEO of Rocket Lab, for a live virtual discussion of his book \u201cThe Launch of Rocket Lab.\u201d And last week, the Book Club Edition of Planetary Radio featured a conversation with Planetary Society Chief Scientist Bruce Betts about his latest batch of kids\u2019 books about space.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/planetary.s3.amazonaws.com\/assets\/email\/newsletter\/email-tps-logo-small.png\" alt=\"Planetary Society logo bullet\" class=\"inline align-middle h-5 w-5 float-left mr-1 mt-1\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>What is a planetary alignment?<\/strong> This month, stargazers have enjoyed a parade of planets in the night sky. Our guide to planetary alignments explains why these line-ups happen, the different kinds you might hear about, and how to enjoy them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetary.org\/the-downlink\/the-impact-of-impacts?rand=772267\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ancient impact may have briefly made Umbriel cryovolcanic. Uranus\u2019 dark, heavily cratered moon Umbriel has long been considered geologically inactive. But a new study suggests it may have experienced&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":800917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-planetary-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=800916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/800917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=800916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=800916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=800916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}