Nearby planets can affect how one planet ‘wobbles’ on its spin axis, which contributes to seasons.
Uranus is also the only planet to rotate on a sideways axis, meaning it rotates on its side with both poles facing east and west. Like the other giant planets, Uranus also has 13 faint rings, although the outer rings are more brightly colored and easier to see. Uranus’ tilted axis. ...
Earth's axis isand it envelops the planet. Its inner layer is called thetilted(倾斜)at a23.5° angle.troposphere(对流层) and reaches only 11 miles aboveEarth has a total surface(总表面积) area ofsea level((海平面). It has most of the planet's air with196,800,000 square miles. ...
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The rusty world is full of mysteries—and some of the solar system's most extreme geology. Learn more about Earth's smaller, colder neighbor.
Uranus' equator is tilted by 98° with respect to its orbit, making it unique in having its rotation axis close to its orbital plane. This means that the north and south poles alternately point toward the Sun, giving highly exaggerated seasonal changes on the planet. ...
Saturn is the outermost of the five planets that were known to the astronomers of antiquity. The telescopic appearance of the planet is dominated by a prominent and beautiful system of rings (seeSaturn's rings) that lie in the plane of Saturn's equator, tilted by 27° with respect to its...
Uranus experiences very fast atmospheric winds, with speeds of up to 900 km/h. Unusual magnetosphere: Uranus' magnetic axis is tilted relative to its axis of rotation. While most planets have their magnetic axis aligned with their axis of rotation, Uranus exhibits a significant tilt of nearly ...
(For discussions of these categories,seeplanet.) Eris revolves once about every 560Earthyears in a highly tilted,ellipticalorbit. From its spectrum its surface appears to be coated with whitemethaneice. Eris has at least onemoon,Dysnomia, about one-eighth its size, with an orbital period about...