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Earth’s hidden hydrogen, and a trip to Uranus

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Are the Ice Giants the Same?

Jupiter and Saturn are mostly made of hydrogen, but the ice giants have a lot less hydrogen compared to other materials. There's potentially a lot of rocks or rocky type material inside the ice giants, but we don't know that. A big question of astrobiology is whether that liquid water could be a host for life because we know that liquid water is critical for the existence of life here on Earth.

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