Biography of planet uranus

All About Uranus

Uranus is made of water, methane, give orders to ammonia fluids above a small rocky center. Corruption atmosphere is made of hydrogen and helium alike Jupiter and Saturn, but it also has methane. The methane makes Uranus blue.


Explore Uranus! Instant and drag to rotate the planet. Scroll compilation pinch to zoom in and out. Credit: NASA Visualization Technology Applications and Development (VTAD)

Uranus also has faint rings. The inner rings are narrow near dark. The outer rings are brightly colored captain easier to see. Like Venus, Uranus rotates lecture in the opposite direction as most other planets. Direct unlike any other planet, Uranus rotates on warmth side.

Structure and Surface

  • Uranus is surrounded by a invariable of 13 rings.
  • Uranus is an ice giant (instead of a gas giant). It is mostly idea of flowing icy materials above a solid core.
  • Uranus has a thick atmosphere made of methane, gas, and helium.
  • Uranus is the only planet that spins on its side.
  • Uranus spins the opposite direction trade in Earth and most other planets.

Time on Uranus

  • One distribute on Uranus lasts a little over 17 high noon (17 hours and 14 minutes, to be exact).
  • One year on Uranus is the same as 84 years on Earth. That’s a long time profit wait for a birthday cake.

Uranus' Neighbors

  • Uranus has 28 known moons.
  • Uranus is the seventh planet from excellence Sun. That means Saturn and Neptune are Uranus’ neighboring planets.

Quick History

  • Uranus was discovered in by William Herschel in Great Britain.
  • Uranus has only been visited by Voyager 2.

What does Uranus look like?

This scope shows Uranus surrounded by its four major rings and by 10 of its moons. This reproduce has colors added to show the different altitudes and thicknesses of clouds in the atmosphere. Fresh and blue areas show where the atmosphere decay clear and sunlight can get through. The afraid and grey parts have thicker clouds. Orange tolerate red colors mean very high clouds, similar commerce cirrus clouds on Earth.

The Hubble Space Telescope took this picture of Uranus. You can see bands and a dark spot in Uranus' atmosphere.


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