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One day on Uranus takes about 17 hours. This is the amount of time it takes Uranus to rotate, or spin once around its axis. Uranus makes a complete orbit around the Sun (a year in Uranian time) in about 84 Earth years (30,687 Earth days).
- Dancing Uranus
Uranus’ axis is so tilted, it actually looks like the planet...
- Dancing Uranus
Uranus’ axis is so tilted, it actually looks like the planet is rotating on its side. How did this all happen? One theory is that a body the size of our Earth collided with Uranus a long time ago, radically throwing off its rotation.
23 cze 2023 · This image shows a representation of Uranus' magnetic field. The yellow arrow points toward the sun, the light blue arrow marks the planet's magnetic axis and the dark blue arrow marks Uranus' rotation axis. NASA/Scientific Visualization Studio/Tom Bridgman.
2 sie 1998 · Based on the previous Voyager observations, Uranus spins on its axis at a faster rate than Earth does, completing one rotation every 7 hours, 14 minutes. One of the four gas giant planets of our solar system, Uranus is largely featureless.
2 lis 1994 · Based on the previous Voyager observations, Uranus spins on its axis at a faster rate than Earth does, completing one rotation every 7 hours, 14 minutes. One of the four gas giant planets of our solar system, Uranus is largely featureless. Unlike Earth, Uranus' south pole points toward the Sun during part of the planet's 84-year orbit.
Uranus is a very cold and windy planet. It is surrounded by faint rings, and more than two dozen 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 on its side.
5 cze 2023 · The visual appearance of Uranus reflects the presence at high altitude of photochemical hydrocarbon clouds that overlay methane haze, which in turn overlies hydrogen sulfide or ammonia clouds. Tilt of the axis: Uranus is the only planet in the solar system whose axis of rotation is extremely tilted.
