How long does it take for Uranus to orbit the sun? How long does it take Neptune to orbit the Sun? At what time of year is the Earth's axis not tilted either toward or away from the sun? What is the approximate speed of rotation at Earth?s equator?
So, how fast does Earth spin? The actual speed of the Earth’s rotation is about 1,000 miles per hour as measured from the equator, so it might seem strange that people can’t actually feel the Earth spin. The reason is essential, that we are just used to it. Since the Earth spin...
and gas, the planetesimals accreted into protoplanets, and soon into the eight planets we currently know and love; those in the inner solar system, includingMercury,Venus,Earth,Mars, and those in the outer solar system -Jupiter,Saturn,UranusandNeptune(sorry,Pluto- you're only a dwarf planet)...
Although not as famous as Saturn, Uranus does display a set of rings around its middle. The rings around Uranus are made up of tiny dark particles smaller than a meter. Only two of the 13 rings are larger than six miles across. Although the second ring system to be discovered, the ring...
Uranus has 27 moons. The larger moons of Uranus likeArielare made of water ice and rock in nearly equal proportions. Neptune has 14 moons.Triton,one of these moons, has volcanoes of not lava but ice! Finally, even Pluto, which is no longer considered a planet, has 5 moons of its own...
Why does Venus rotate backward from the other planets? How long is one solar cycle? How many times did Alan Shepard orbit the Earth? How long is the magnetic solar cycle? How does Uranus' tilted axis affect its seasons? What relationship between the Earth and the Sun causes the seasons to...
In our solar system, we have small rocky planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars) and gas giants (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune). The planets formed when material from the early solar disk (planetismals) collided and clumped together to form the planets. The material in the inner solar ...
From Voyager, we learned more about the weather on Jupiter; the rings around Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus; volcanic activity on Jupiter's moon Io; the masses and densities of Saturn’s moons; the atmospheric pressure on Titan, Saturn's largest moon; the magnetic field of Uranus; and a persis...
If dark matter does not interact at all, then it should exist alongside the galaxies in the collision having cleanly sailed through; if it interacts by a significant amount, we’d expect to see it closer to the hot gas. And if it interacts just a little bit, it would be around mid-wa...
Fixed objective marker never pathing through doors to one of the cells in Caliban, Uranus. Fixed crash in Conclave due to the “x was killed by x” message. Fixed Saryn’s Molt doing idle animations when using certain skins. Fixed “awaiting revive from teammates” message missing in revive...