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Nancy Neal
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
(Phone: 301/286-0039)
Ray Villard
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD
(Phone: 410/338-4514)
RELEASE: 99-47
Although Uranus has been observed for more than 200 years,
"no one has ever seen this view in the modern era of astronomy
because of the long year of Uranus -- more than 84 Earth years,"
said Dr. Heidi Hammel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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