: any of the planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune whose orbits lie beyond the asteroid belt
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Recent Examples on the WebUranus is an outer planet that affects our long-term goals. Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 23 Aug. 2022 The first space mission to orbit an outer planet from pole to pole, Juno gets to with a few thousand miles of Jupiter’s cloud-tops at the poles. Jamie Carter, Forbes, 25 May 2022 And the latest report, released today, has put this outer planet front and center. Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 19 Apr. 2022 So Siegelman, a researcher at San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, turned her eye to the latest detailed images of the outer planet. Ramin Skibba, Wired, 10 Jan. 2022 This is when the outer planet will be at its most luminous, making for a brilliant night sky view. Megan Marples, CNN, 30 July 2021 In the 1970s, as the Voyager mission cruised toward the outer planets, scientists predicted that the spacecraft would find moons like our own. Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2020 This was incidental; the Voyager probes were built to study the outer planets but were given gravitational boosts that ultimately sent them speeding off fast enough to cover three times the distance from the Earth to the Sun every year. John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 Nov. 2019 Hubble participates in the Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy program, and these images of the outer planets help scientists study the giant planets and their atmospheres. Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 Sep. 2019 See More