• 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    methane on the surface of Titan". Icarus. 178 (1): 274–276. Bibcode:2005Icar..178..274M. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2005.05.018. "Uranus in Depth". NASA. September...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    Enceladus (Giant) (category Deeds of Athena)
    romanized: Enkélados) was one of the Giants, the offspring of Gaia (Earth) and Uranus (Sky). Enceladus was the traditional opponent of Athena during the Gigantomachy...
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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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    visited Saturn successfully, it was decided to fund further missions to Uranus and Neptune. These missions were conducted by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory...
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    independently co-discovered Hyperion, a moon of Saturn. In 1851 he discovered Ariel and Umbriel, two moons of Uranus. In 1855, he built a 48-inch (1,200 mm)...
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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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