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Uranus ((What does Uranus mean?
Uranus (from the Latin name Ūranus for…
Uranus
What does Uranus mean?
Uranus (from the Latin name Ūranus for the Greek god Οὐρανός) is the seventh planet from the Sun. It has the third-largest planetary radius and fourth-largest planetary mass in the Solar System. ... For this reason, scientists often classify Uranus and Neptune as "ice giants" to distinguish them from the gas giants.
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Uranus has 27 known moons, and they are named after characters from the works of William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope.
Is there life on Uranus?
The planet Uranus was so hard to find in part because it is a whopping 1.8 billion miles away. But it is actually the third-largest planet in our solar system, and is roughly four times wider than Earth. Like Saturn, Jupiter, and Neptune, Uranus is a big ball of gas, often called a jovian or gas giant world
Uranus has an atmosphere made mostly of molecular hydrogen and atomic helium, with a small amount of methane.
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Uranus turns on its axis once every 17 hours, 14 minutes. ...
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Uranus is an ice giant. Most of its mass is a hot, dense fluid of "icy" materials – water, methane and ammonia – above a small rocky core.
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Uranus orbits our Sun, a star, and is the seventh planet from the Sun at a distance of about 1.8 billion miles (2.9 billion kilometers).
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Like Venus, Uranus rotates east to west. But Uranus is unique in that it rotates on its side
Uranus takes about 17 hours to rotate once (a Uranian day), and about 84 Earth years to complete an orbit of the Sun (a Uranian year).
Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to fly by Uranus. No spacecraft has orbited this distant planet to study it at length and up close.
Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to fly by Uranus. No spacecraft has orbited this distant planet to study it at length and up close.
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Is there life on Uranus?
The planet Uranus was so hard to find in part because it is a whopping 1.8 billion miles away. But it is actually the third-largest planet in our solar system, and is roughly four times wider than Earth. Like Saturn, Jupiter, and Neptune, Uranus is a big ball of gas, often called a jovian or gas giant world
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What is Uranus made of?
Uranus is made of water, methane, and ammonia fluids above a small rocky center. Its atmosphere is made of hydrogen and helium like Jupiter and Saturn, but it also has methane. The methane makes Uranus blue