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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atmosphere. There are many unexplained climate phenomena in Uranus's atmosphere, such as its peak wind speed of 900 km/h (560 mph), variations in its polar...
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Sun being Uranus Orbit of Uranus Orbit of Uranus Rotation of Uranus Atmosphere of Uranus Climate of Uranus Rings of Uranus Moons of Uranus Cordelia Ophelia...
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Neptune (redirect from Climate of Neptune)
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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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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temperature gap between equator and poles. (At an extreme tilt, such as that of Uranus, the poles can receive similar annual surface insolation to the equator...
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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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Solar System (redirect from Astronomy of the solar system)
away from the Sun. Uranus's outer layer has a muted cyan color, but underneath these clouds contain many mysteries about its climate phenomena, such as...
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Planet (redirect from Length of the days and years of the planets)
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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Extraterrestrial sky (redirect from Skies of another planets)
color of its atmosphere, the sky of Neptune is probably an azure or sky blue, similar to Uranus's. As in the case of Uranus, it is unlikely that the planet's...
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Jupiter (redirect from Climate of Jupiter)
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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Planetary habitability in the Solar System (redirect from Life on Uranus)
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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William Herschel (redirect from Discoverer of Uranus)
given the name of Uranus. This was the first planet to be discovered since antiquity, and Herschel became famous overnight. As a result of this discovery...
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Extraterrestrial atmosphere (redirect from Extraterrestial climate)
predicts global climate change on Jupiter as giant planet's spots disappear". University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved 2007-05-09. "Uranus' Atmosphere"...
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Cirrus cloud (section Effects on climate)
of Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune; and on Titan, one of Saturn's larger moons. Some of these extraterrestrial cirrus clouds are made of ammonia...
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Saturn (redirect from Climate of Saturn)
versus 33,780 mi). Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune, the other giant planets in the Solar System, are less oblate. The combination of the bulge and the rotation...
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Atmosphere (section Structure of atmosphere)
Atmosphere of Uranus Atmosphere of Titania Atmosphere of Neptune Atmosphere of Triton Atmosphere of Pluto The atmosphere of Earth is composed of layers with...
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red end of the spectrum, due to overtone bands, but the effect is only noticeable if the light path is very long. This is what gives Uranus and Neptune...
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K2-18b (section Atmosphere and climate)
aside, more closely resembles a gas planet like Uranus or Neptune than Earth. K2-18 is an M dwarf of the spectral class M3V in the constellation Leo,...
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Neptune is 17 times the mass of Earth and is slightly more massive than its near-twin Uranus, which is 15 times the mass of Earth and slightly larger than...
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by Dec 2035 & a Uranus flyby in March 2045, the mission includes 2 probes, one exploring Jupiter's system and another flying by Uranus" (Tweet) – via Twitter...
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Space colonization (redirect from Colonization of Uranus)
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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Archived from the original on 28 October 2020. Retrieved 15 March 2020. "Uranus's colliding moons". astronomy.com. 2017. Archived from the original on 26...
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of Mars (within 30 to 50 million years), Triton of Neptune (in 3.6 billion years), and at least 16 small satellites of Uranus and Neptune. Uranus's Desdemona...
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Inverness (redirect from Climate of Inverness)
The name Inverness is also given to a feature on Miranda, a moon of the planet Uranus, as well as a 2637 m tall mountain in British Columbia, Canada. Inverness...
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Cloud (section History of cloud science)
found covering Uranus and Neptune, but are all composed of methane. Saturn's moon Titan has cirrus clouds believed to be composed largely of methane. The...
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Planetary-mass moon (category Lists of moons)
moons of Saturn (Rhea) may also be in equilibrium, as may a couple of the moons of Uranus (Titania and Oberon). However, the other ellipsoidal moons of Saturn...
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Natural satellite (redirect from Definition of moon)
the Uranus–Titania system at 0.031. For the category of dwarf planets, Charon has the largest ratio, being 0.52 the diameter and 12.2% the mass of Pluto...
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