An analysis of data collected by the Voyager 2 spacecraft and by ground-based telescopes limits the depths to which winds penetrate into Uranus and Neptune, informing the debate about these planets' internal structures. See Letter p.344
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Read, P. Plumbing the depths of Uranus and Neptune. Nature 497, 323–324 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/497323a
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