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It returned the first close-up images of the planet, its moons, and rings.

In 1986, the Voyager 2 spacecraft swept past the planet at a distance of 81,500 km. Only one spacecraft has flown by Uranus.The most interesting Uranian moon is Miranda it has ice canyons, terraces, and other strange-looking surface areas. All are frozen worlds with dark surfaces. These include Oberon, Titania and Miranda. Uranus’ moons are named after characters created by William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope.The first rings were discovered in 1977 with the two outer rings being discovered in Hubble Space Telescope images between 20. They probably formed when one or more of Uranus’s moons were broken up in an impact. There are eleven inner rings and two outer rings. The ring particles are small, ranging from a dust-sized particles to small boulders. Uranus has two sets of very thin dark coloured rings.Branch off from your initial topic and ask follow up questions about whatever they seem interested in. Once you stumble upon something interesting or something they are interested in, keep talking about that for a while. The upper atmosphere of Uranus is covered by a methane haze which hides the storms that take place in the cloud decks. You’ll find that most people will have at least some things to say about each of these topics. While Neptune doesn’t get as cold as Uranus it is on average colder. With minimum atmospheric temperature of -224☌ Uranus is nearly coldest planet in the solar system. Uranus hits the coldest temperatures of any planet.The upper atmosphere is made of water, ammonia and the methane ice crystals that give the planet its pale blue colour. Below that is an icy “mantle, which surrounds a rock and ice core. Like the other gas giants, it has a hydrogen upper layer, which has helium mixed in. Uranus is often referred to as an “ice giant” planet.The rest of the time they are in darkness. Uranus makes one trip around the Sun every 84 Earth years.ĭuring some parts of its orbit one or the other of its poles point directly at the Sun and get about 42 years of direct sunlight.

The planet rotates in a retrograde direction, opposite to the way Earth and most other planets turn.

Uranus turns on its axis once every 17 hours, 14 minutes.

The name comes from the ancient Greek deity Ouranos. The name Uranus was suggested by astronomer Johann Bode. Herscal tried to have his discovery named “Georgian Sidus” after King George III. At first Herschel thought it was a comet, but several years later it was confirmed as a planet. It is too dim to have been seen by the ancients.

Uranus was officially discovered by Sir William Herschel in 1781.