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Uranus
By Natasha Schultz
The Atmosphere
Uranus’s atmosphere has a
turquoise appearance
Made up of 82.5% molecular
hydrogen
15.2% Helium
2.3% Methane
Surface
Uranus is basically a ball of ice
and gas
Anything that lands on the
surface would sink through the
upper atmosphere into the icy
center.
Revolution Time
It takes 85 years for Uranus to
revolve around the sun.
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Moons
Uranus has 27 moons
Miranda
•Belinda
Ariel
•Cupid
Umbriel
•Puck
Titania
•Mab
Oberon
•Caliban
Cordelia
•Stephano
Ophelia
•Sycorax
Bianca
•Margaret
•Setebos
Cressida
•Trinculo
Desdemona
•Ferdinand
Juliet
•Setebos
Portia
•Prospero
Rosalind
•Perdita
Location
Uranus is about
1,783,950,480 miles away
from the sun.
How was it named?
Uranus was named after the
Greek god of the sky
Only planet whose name came
from Greek mythology instead
of Roman mythology
Symbol
15 facts:
 Uranus has been visited once by Voyager 2 on
Jan.24,1986
 It is the 3rd gas giant planet
 Discovered on March 13, 1781
 Uranus’s axis is tilted 97 degrees
 First planet discovered in the modern age
 Almost twice the distance from the sun than
Saturn is
 Takes 17 hours to spin on its axis
 Almost all of its moons were named after
Shakespearean characters
 In many Asian languages “Uranus” is translated
into “Sky king star”
 It is the second least dense planet after Saturn
15 Facts Continued
 If you weighed 70 pounds on Earth you
would weigh 62 pounds on Uranus
 Rings are made up of black dust particles
and rocks
 5 of its moons are large and the others
are smaller
 Uranus has 11 rings
 Near the cloud tops, the temperature of
Uranus is -357 degrees Fahrenheit
Bibliography
 http://www.cosmographica.com/gallery/portfolio2007/
content/bin/images/large/184_UranusRings_full.jpg
 http://static.newworldencyclopedia.org/thumb/f/f1/Ura
nus_symbol.svg/365px-Uranus_symbol.svg.png
 http://www.bestesoft.com/imgbest/5/8/58408-uranus3d-space-screensaver.jpg
 http://dragonphysics.pbworks.com/f/Uranus%20from
%20Ariel.jpg
 http://explanet.info/images/Ch11/11_04.jpg
 http://www.spacestationinfo.com/images/uranus.gif
 http://god-pictures.co.cc/images/na/Uranus.jpg
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