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Can you stand on the surface of Uranus?
You can’t stand on Uranus That’s because Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune don’t have solid surfaces – they have a rocky core, but are mainly big balls of hydrogen and helium.
What is the surface of Uranus made of?
Kid-Friendly Uranus Uranus is made of water, methane, and ammonia fluids above a small rocky center. Its atmosphere is made of hydrogen and helium like Jupiter and Saturn, but it also has methane.
What is the surface area of Uranus?
3.121 billion mi²
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Do we have pictures of Uranus surface?
So far, only one spacecraft has ever captured an image of Uranus: NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft. So let’s take a look at some pictures of Uranus, some captured by Voyager 2, and others seen from Hubble, and even here on the ground.
What does the surface of Uranus look like?
Uranus has no solid surface. It’s a mass of gas, mostly hydrogen, but also helium, methane, and hydrogen sulfide (which means Uranus smells like rotten eggs *snerk*). Descending from the cloud-tops, you’d find that the gas gets denser and denser. As we penetrate Uranus deeper and deeper *snerk*,…
How can I see the inner rings of Uranus?
Click and drag to rotate the planet. Scroll or pinch to zoom in and out. Credit: NASA Visualization Technology Applications and Development (VTAD) Uranus also has faint rings. The inner rings are narrow and dark. The outer rings are brightly colored and easier to see. Like Venus, Uranus rotates in the opposite direction as most other planets.
How big is the wind speed on Uranus?
Wind speeds can reach up to 560 miles per hour (900 kilometers per hour) on Uranus. The hefty tilt of Uranus causes the north or south poles to be in complete darkness for 42 Earth years! Really sucks to have an axis tilt that makes the planet rotate to the sides.
What does the surface of Neptune look like?
neptune has a solid surface, an ice surface and that is not the core. Even you graphic shows that yet the writer just goes on and on without a thought in their head. Neptune is actually pretty hot in the interior, about 7000 C, as hot as the surface of the sun.