Uranus turns on its axis once every 17 hours, 14 minutes. The planet rotates in a retrograde direction, opposite to the wayEarthand most other planets turn. Uranus makes one trip around the Sun every 84 Earth years. During some parts of its orbit one or the other of its poles point dir...
The third largest planet in our solar system, Uranus is about four times the size of Earth. It is 30,000 miles in diameter, compared to Jupiter’s 85,000-mile diameter. As with all gas planets, Uranus has very faint rings around it made up of large chunks of rocky material. Since th...
The quiz will ask you to: Describe where Uranus is in the solar system and how big it is compared to other planets Know how Uranus moves Name the hard-to-see feature of Uranus Determine what many of the planet's moons are named after ...
It is not clear why Uranus has such a low internal heat output compared with the other Jovian planets. All the planets should have started warm, since gravitational energy was transformed into heat during planetary accretion. Over the age of the solar system, Earth and the other smaller objects...
Uranus and Neptune are the last unexplored planets of the Solar System. I show that they hold crucial keys to understand the atmospheric dynamics and structure of planets with hydrogen atmospheres. Their atmospheres are active and storms are believed to be fueled by methane condensation which is bo...
In size (four times that of Earth) and mass (14 times that of Earth), Uranus is almost a twin of the planet Neptune; though slightly less massive than Neptune, it is slightly larger in radius because of its weaker gravity. Compared to Jupiter, Uranus has a relatively larger iron/rocky ...
“One of the most striking of these is the planet’s seasonal north polar cloud cap. Compared to the Webb image from earlier this year, some details of the cap are easier to see in these newer images. These include the bright, white, inner cap and the dark lane in the bottom of the...
On Tuesday the 13th of March, between ten and eleven in the evening, while I was examining the small stars in the neighbourhood of H Geminorum, I perceived one that appeared visibly larger than the rest; being struck with its uncommon magnitude, I compared it to H Geminorum and the small...
Neptune The 3rd largest planet in the solar system Very similar to Uranus It is blue in color and has belts and zones High wind speeds Up to 2000 km/hr Rotational axis is tilted 30 degrees Key Stats Average distance from the sun = 2 billion 700 million miles (2,700,000,000) 1 year...
On Tuesday the 13th of March, between ten and eleven in the evening, while I was examining the small stars in the neighbourhood of H Geminorum, I perceived one that appeared visibly larger than the rest; being struck with its uncommon magnitude, I compared it to H Geminorum and the small...