Fig. 5: The moons Oberon and Titania and their location with respect to the Uranian magnetopause.
From: The anomalous state of Uranus’s magnetosphere during the Voyager 2 flyby
Expected positions of the outer major moons Oberon and Titania with respect to the magnetopause for a future flagship mission expected to arrive near equinox in the late 2040s and early 2050s. a,b, The Uranian major moon system (orbital locations in blue) with respect to the Uranian magnetopause (grey lines) shown in the X-Z plane (a) and the X-Y plane (b) (see Methods for more details). c–h, Analysis for the moons Titania (c,e,g) and Oberon (d,f,h). c,d, The orbital angle between the moon and the Uranus–Sun line with time (that is, phase). e,f, The orbital radial distance of the moon (magenta), and the expected probability of the closest magnetopause location shown as a colour scale. g,h, The probability of the moon being outside the magnetopause as a timeseries for a window of time spanning two orbital periods of the moons. The colour scale shown in g,h is also the same colour scale for the probability distribution of the magnetopause shown in e,f.
