• The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Uranus: Uranus – seventh planet from the Sun. It has the third-largest planetary...
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    Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It is a gaseous cyan-coloured ice giant. Most of the planet is made of water, ammonia, and methane in a supercritical...
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    Rings of Saturn Shepherd moons Magnetosphere of Saturn Uranus ⛢ Moons of Uranus Miranda Ariel Umbriel Titania Oberon Rings of Uranus Neptune ♆ Moons of Neptune...
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    the mass of Earth. Compared to its fellow ice giant Uranus, Neptune is slightly more massive, but denser and smaller. Being composed primarily of gases and...
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    The climate of Uranus is heavily influenced by both its lack of internal heat, which limits atmospheric activity, and by its extreme axial tilt, which...
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    exploration of Uranus has, to date, been through telescopes and a lone probe by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft, which made its closest approach to Uranus on January...
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    The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to astronomy: Astronomy – studies the universe beyond Earth, including its formation...
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    Exploration of Mars Mars landings Mars rovers Mars Rotorcrafts Mars flyby Exploration of Jupiter Exploration of Saturn Exploration of Uranus Exploration of Neptune...
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    Rhea Rings of Rhea Titan Hyperion Iapetus Phoebe Shepherd moons Saturn-crossing minor planets Uranus Rings of Uranus Complete list of Uranus's natural satellites...
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    Voyager 2 (category Missions to Uranus)
    the ice giants Uranus and Neptune. It remains the only spacecraft to have visited either of the ice giant planets, and was the third of five spacecraft...
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    restrictive definition of the term: the terrestrial planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, and the giant planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The...
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  • astronomy Outline of the Solar System Outline of space exploration Neptune is denser and physically smaller than Uranus because Neptune's greater mass gravitationally...
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    Earth and Mars); two gas giants (Jupiter and Saturn); and two ice giants (Uranus and Neptune). All terrestrial planets have solid surfaces. Inversely, all...
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    spacecraft to visit, and thus observe, Uranus and its moons in detail is Voyager 2 in 1986. The five major moons of Uranus, however, may have been home to tidally...
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  • The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to geology: Geology – one of the Earth sciences – is the study of the Earth, with...
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    predict the position of the then-undiscovered planet Neptune after analyzing perturbations in the orbit of Uranus. Subsequent observations of Neptune in the...
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    flybys of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune; extended mission to explore interstellar medium; first spacecraft to Uranus and Neptune Uranus Orbiter...
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    Hesiod's Theogony, Aphrodite is born off the coast of Cythera from the foam (ἀφρός, aphrós) produced by Uranus's genitals, which his son Cronus had severed and...
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    size and placement are mostly a result of the Solar System having four giant planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune far from the sun. The giant...
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    Christa; Gomes, R. (2008). "Origin of the structure of the Kuiper belt during a dynamical instability in the orbits of Uranus and Neptune". Icarus. 196 (1):...
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  • Saturn, with the other two giant planets, Uranus and Neptune, being ice giants. Jupiter was known to astronomers of ancient times. The Romans named it after...
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    various scientific fields allows for the prediction of some far-future events, if only in the broadest outline. These fields include astrophysics, which studies...
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    with other opponents of the Olympians, particularly the Titans, an earlier generation of large and powerful children of Gaia and Uranus. The vanquished Giants...
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  • own orbit. Therefore, only five of the seven classical planets remain recognized as planets, alongside Earth, Uranus, and Neptune. The Babylonians recognized...
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  • Tianwen-4 (category Missions to Uranus)
    spacecraft which will make a flyby of Uranus. The goals of the planned Tianwen-4 Jupiter mission include: study of the interaction between magnetic fields...
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    Robert Zubrin identified Saturn, Uranus and Neptune as "the Persian Gulf of the Solar System", as the largest sources of deuterium and helium-3 to drive...
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    the orbit of Uranus in 1821. Later, between 1845 and 1846, John Adams and Urbain Le Verrier separately predicted the existence and location of a new planet...
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    at Stalingrad as well. On 19 November, the Red Army launched Operation Uranus, a two-pronged attack targeting the Romanian armies protecting the 6th Army's...
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    the orbit of Uranus. 1825 – Pierre Laplace completes his study of gravitation, the stability of the Solar System, tides, the precession of the equinoxes...
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    was referred to as the "Portia of the Law Courts". Portia is a moon of Uranus, one of several such named after Shakespearean characters. Portia de Rossi...
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