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Tsholofelo -URANUS
MOONS
Uranus has 27 known moons, and they are named after characters from the works of William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope.
Four of Uranus's 27 known satellites can be seen in telescopes. Both Titania and Oberon have been glimpsed with apertures as small as 20 centimeters (8 inches). Umbriel and Ariel, however, because they lie much closer to the planet's glare.
They're tiny – as little as 8-10 miles (12-16 km) across, and blacker than asphalt. And of course, they're about 1.8 billion miles (2.9 billion km) away from the Sun.
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The most accepted theory for the formation of these moons that are titled together with Uranus (which is titled by around 98 degrees), is that they formed as a result of a giant impact that tilted Uranus, and formed a disk around the young planet from which the regular moons formed.
RINGS
The Uranian ring system probably originated from the collision fragmentation of several moons that once existed around the planet.
After colliding, the moons probably broke up into many particles, which survived as narrow and optically dense rings only in strictly confined zones of maximum stability.
it turns out that Uranus is so weird because of a massive collision billions of years ago. A new study confirms that this collision with a huge object which was approximately twice the size of Earth could have led to the planet's extreme tilt and other odd attributes.
the innermost one is reddish like dusty rings elsewhere in the solar system, and the outer ring is blue like Saturn's E ring.
The rings of Uranus are thought to be very young, not more than 600 million years old. They probably came from a few shepherd moons that were shattered by Uranus' gravity and turned into rings around the planet. The chunks collided with each other and turned into smaller and smaller particles
the rings are consist with, water ice with the addition of some dark radiation-processed organics.
ATMOSPHERE
Most (80% or more) of the planet's mass is made up of a hot dense fluid of icy materials water, methane, and ammonia above a small rocky core
It is one of the four gas giants in the solar system because it is made mostly of gases like hydrogen, helium, and frozen ammonia and methane.
YUCK! We could never breathe on Uranus! Uranus has less gravity than Earth, so you would not be as heavy on Uranus as you are on Earth
The ice-giant is surrounded by 13 faint rings and 27 small moons as it rotates at a nearly 90-degree angle from the plane of its orbit. This unique tilt makes Uranus appear to spin sideways, orbiting the Sun like a rolling ball.
Uranus get its blue green color from methane gas in the atmosphere.Sunlight passes through the atmosphere and is reflected back out by Uranus' cloud tops. Methane gas absorbs the red portion of the light, resulting in a blue green color.
Like the other gas giants, Uranus has an atmosphere composed of mostly hydrogen, followed by helium and a little methane. What is very interesting about Uranus is that the planet has an enormous 98 degree tilt on its axis.
Uranus is an ice giant, meaning that its chemical makeup differs from Jupiter and Saturn, with strong enrichment in elements like carbon, nitrogen, sulfur, and oxygen, mixed with an atmosphere of hydrogen and helium.
Temperature
A new study has found that “diamond rain” may be more common on ice giant planets like Neptune and Uranus than previously thought. For the first time, scientists were able to observe diamond rain as it formed with their experiment .
speeds on Uranus range from 90 to 360 mph and the planet's average temperature is a frigid -353 degrees F. The coldest temperature found in Uranus
Uranus' lower atmosphere so far is -371 degrees C., which rivals Neptune's frigid temperatures. Findings from Hubble reveal that clouds circle Uranus at over 300 mph
This makes for extreme seasons and when the Sun rises at one of the poles, that pole will receive direct sunlight for 42 years.
Therefore seasonal variations are immense, in that as the dark side of the planet comes out of its 40 plus year slumber, the frozen atmosphere heats up dramatically causing violent storms.
During the past 20 Earth years, the upper atmosphere of Uranus cooled from 750 to 550 kelvin hart, but since 2013, it has heated by about 50 kelvins per Earth year
Uranus' environment is not conducive to life as we know it. The temperatures, pressures, and materials that characterize this planet are most likely too extreme and volatile for organisms to adapt to
Weather & Oxygen
Oxygen-bearing species such as H2O, CO2 and CO are present in the stratospheres of Uranus and Neptune
he atmosphere of the planet Uranus contains mostly hydrogen, helium, and methane. Interestingly, the methane in the atmosphere is what gives Uranus its distinctive blue color. Since Uranus contains effectively zero free oxygen, the hydrogen and methane in the atmosphere does not burn or explode
While most planets have rocky molten cores, the center of Uranus is thought to contain icy materials. The liquid core makes up 80 percent of the mass of the planet, mostly comprised of water, methane, and ammonia ice, though it only extends to about 20 percent of the radius.
Uranus' atmosphere consists primarily of hydrogen and helium, but it also contains “ices” such as water, ammonia and methane.
These ices also make up the planet's mantle, which surrounds a rocky inner core. Neptune's atmosphere is also mostly composed of hydrogen and helium
With a radius of 15,759.2 miles (25,362 kilometers), Uranus is 4 times wider than Earth. If Earth was the size of a nickel, Uranus would be about as big as a softball
Extra's
Uranus have most as its mass is a,hot fluid/liquid. & dense fluids of icy materials
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you cant see the rings of Uranus because, light doesn't reflect to dust
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