Science Planet Project-Uranus update final
... Does Uranus have water in any form? • It all comes down to density. The density of Uranus is the second least in the Solar System, after Saturn. In fact, it has a density that’s only a little higher than water. Since water is very common in the outer Solar System, astronomers suspect that the whole ...
... Does Uranus have water in any form? • It all comes down to density. The density of Uranus is the second least in the Solar System, after Saturn. In fact, it has a density that’s only a little higher than water. Since water is very common in the outer Solar System, astronomers suspect that the whole ...
1 Lecture #28: Uranus
... • Uranus' atmosphere has many fewer clouds and other features than Jupiter's or Saturn's. ...
... • Uranus' atmosphere has many fewer clouds and other features than Jupiter's or Saturn's. ...
Uranus
... o Spacecraft voyager2 has visited Uranus to collect information about the planet. o Uranus was the first planet discovered by scientists. o Uranus was discovered accidentally because William Herschel was looking at the stars with his telescope when he spotted Uranus. ...
... o Spacecraft voyager2 has visited Uranus to collect information about the planet. o Uranus was the first planet discovered by scientists. o Uranus was discovered accidentally because William Herschel was looking at the stars with his telescope when he spotted Uranus. ...
Chapter 12: Uranus and Neptune
... the craft made a close pass of the planet's largest moon, Triton. What surprises! Triton turned out to be smaller than anticipated, with a diameter of just over 2,700 kilometers considerably smaller than our Moon. Triton was also more reflective and much colder than expected, with a surface temperat ...
... the craft made a close pass of the planet's largest moon, Triton. What surprises! Triton turned out to be smaller than anticipated, with a diameter of just over 2,700 kilometers considerably smaller than our Moon. Triton was also more reflective and much colder than expected, with a surface temperat ...
Seventh planet - Copeland Science Online
... Father of Cronus (Saturn) Discovered by William Herschel while searching the sky on March 13, 1781. Seen many times before but ignored as simply another star. Spacecraft Visiting Uranus Voyager 2, Jan 24 1986, flyby Discovered 11 small moons in addition to the 5 large ones already known. Rotation of ...
... Father of Cronus (Saturn) Discovered by William Herschel while searching the sky on March 13, 1781. Seen many times before but ignored as simply another star. Spacecraft Visiting Uranus Voyager 2, Jan 24 1986, flyby Discovered 11 small moons in addition to the 5 large ones already known. Rotation of ...
uranus
... Uranus is the third largest planet after Jupiter and Saturn. Uranus has 21 moons and small, dusty rings. Voyager 2 acquired this view of the seventh planet while departing the Uranian system in late January 1986. This image looks at the planet approximately along its rotational pole. ...
... Uranus is the third largest planet after Jupiter and Saturn. Uranus has 21 moons and small, dusty rings. Voyager 2 acquired this view of the seventh planet while departing the Uranian system in late January 1986. This image looks at the planet approximately along its rotational pole. ...
Uranus
... Uranus is the third largest planet after Jupiter and Saturn. Uranus has 21 moons and small, dusty rings. Voyager 2 acquired this view of the seventh planet while departing the Uranian system in late January 1986. This image looks at the planet approximately along its rotational pole. ...
... Uranus is the third largest planet after Jupiter and Saturn. Uranus has 21 moons and small, dusty rings. Voyager 2 acquired this view of the seventh planet while departing the Uranian system in late January 1986. This image looks at the planet approximately along its rotational pole. ...
Titania (moon)
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Titania is the largest of the moons of Uranus and the eighth largest moon in the Solar System at a diameter of 1,578 kilometres (981 mi). Discovered by William Herschel in 1787, Titania is named after the queen of the fairies in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Its orbit lies inside Uranus's magnetosphere.Titania consists of approximately equal amounts of ice and rock, and is probably differentiated into a rocky core and an icy mantle. A layer of liquid water may be present at the core–mantle boundary. The surface of Titania, which is relatively dark and slightly red in color, appears to have been shaped by both impacts and endogenic processes. It is covered with numerous impact craters reaching up to 326 kilometres (203 mi) in diameter, but is less heavily cratered than the surface of Uranus's outermost moon, Oberon. Titania probably underwent an early endogenic resurfacing event which obliterated its older, heavily cratered surface. Titania's surface is cut by a system of enormous canyons and scarps, the result of the expansion of its interior during the later stages of its evolution. Like all major moons of Uranus, Titania probably formed from an accretion disk which surrounded the planet just after its formation.Infrared spectroscopy conducted from 2001 to 2005 revealed the presence of water ice as well as frozen carbon dioxide on the surface of Titania, which in turn suggested that the moon may have a tenuous carbon dioxide atmosphere with a surface pressure of about one 10 trillionth of a bar. Measurements during Titania's occultation of a star put an upper limit on the surface pressure of any possible atmosphere at 10–20 nbar.The Uranian system has been studied up close only once, by the spacecraft Voyager 2 in January 1986. It took several images of Titania, which allowed mapping of about 40% of its surface.