what is different about the rotation of uranus?
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- But, Uranus and Venus have retrograde rotation where the axial rotation is opposite to the orbital motion; that is they have a clockwise axial rotation and a counter-clockwise orbital motion. This means that for Venus at least, the Sun rises in the west and sets in the east. Uranus is a bit different still. Its axial tilt, which is the angle the rotational axis of a planet makes to its orbital plane, is 97.7 degree. This sideways tilt gives Uranus a unique position in which its axis of rotation is nearly in its orbital plane.
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- Solar Rotation. The rotation of the Sun varies with latitude because it is composed of gaseous plasma. The rate of rotation is observed to be fastest at the equator and decreases as latitude increases.
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How Long Does It Take Uranus to Rotate? Uranus is known as the sideways planet. This is because of the way it tilts. The axis of the earth are at the top and bottom. This is the same for the other planets. Earth rotates on this axis as it orbits the sun. Uranus, however, is tilted almost on its side. This means its axis points at the sun as it rotates putting it at right angles to the sun. It is the only planet to rotate horizontally in this way. Because of the tilt at which Uranus rotates, its magnetic fields are different. The northern hemisphere is about 10 times the strength of the southern hemisphere. The tilt also affects the seasons. They are extreme, and they last for about 20 Earth years. Uranus is the seventh planet from the sun.
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How the Mighty Winds of Uranus and Neptune Blow For comparison, Neptune is about 30,600 miles (49,250 km) in diameter, while Uranus is approximately 31,500 miles (50,700 km) wide. These findings help reveal how these winds originate, researchers said.
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What Does Uranus Look Like Just similar to the other planets that are considered as giant, Uranus consists of a ring system, a number of moons and magnetosphere. Its configuration is unique from among the other planets because the rotation of its axis is tilted sideways near its plane of revolution in the sun.
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- Philip Zelikow, Ernest May and Timothy Naftali. Between 1940 and 1973, presidents of the United States secretly recorded thousands of their meetings and conversations in the White House.
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- This picture was snapped by the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1986 - the only spacecraft ever to visit Uranus. Uranus has many moons and a ring system. Uranus, like Venus, has a rotation axis that is greatly tilted and sometimes points near the Sun. It remains an astronomical mystery why Uranus' axis is so tilted.
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Uranus Facts Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun and the third largest (by diameter).Uranus is larger in diameter but smaller in mass than Neptune.ike the other gas planets, Uranus has rings. Like Jupiter's, they are very dark but like Saturn's they are composed of fairly large particles ranging up to 10 meters in diameter in addition to fine dust. There are 13 known rings, all very faint; the brightest is known as the Epsilon ring.
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Difference Between Earth and Uranus We have on earth, just one moon but Uranus has 15 moons of its own most of which were discovered by Voyager. The unique fact about Uranus is its rings that were discovered in 1977. There are 11 in total, 10 are dark, narrow and widely spaced and one ring is inside others, which is broad and diffuse.
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How Long Does It Take Uranus to Rotate? They are extreme, and they last for about 20 Earth years.Uranus is the seventh planet from the sun. This means it is 1.8 billion miles from the sun. It is 82.5 percent hydrogen, 15.2 percent helium and 2.3 percent methane. It has 27 moons, as well as faint rings.
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Uranus Magnetic fields are typically in alignment with a planet's rotation, but Uranus' magnetic field is tipped over: the magnetic axis is tilted nearly 60 degrees from the planet's axis of rotation, and is also offset from the center of the planet by one-third of the planet's radius.
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What Are the Surface Features of Uranus? Quick Answer. A year on Uranus is equivalent to 84 Earth years, as it takes that long for Uranus to make one revolution around the sun. A day on Uranus is equivalent to about 17 Earth hours. Keep Learning.
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- Uranus has an axial tilt of 97.7 degrees. (Venus is about 177 degrees, but this almost puts it upside down and vertical, thus it really only spins the wrong way but is not very tilted at all) for comparison, Earth has a tilt of 23.4 degrees.
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Jupiter Uranus has a radius of 25,500 km, and a mass of 14.5 Earth's. It has a density similar to Jupiter: 1.27 gm/cm 3. It also spins rapidly, and has a day of 17 hours and 14 minutes. This is the internal rotation period, the cloud layers rotate in about 14 hours.
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Uranus Uranus orbits the Sun once every 84 years. Its average distance from the Sun is roughly 3 billion km (about 20 AU). The difference between its minimum and maximum distance from the Sun is 1.8 AU, larger than that of any other planet, though not as large as that of dwarf planet Pluto.
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Beta Volantis Over the course of its 84-year orbit, the north pole of Uranus is facing towards the Sun, and the south pole is in total darkness. And then the situation reverses for the rest of the planet’s journey around the Sun. Instead of heating the clouds at the equator, the Sun heats up one pole, and then the other. You would expect the pole facing the Sun to warm up, and to have air currents move towards the other pole. But this isn’t what happens. The weather on Uranus follows an identical pattern to what we see on Jupiter and Saturn.
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- According to this new press release (via Bad Astronomy), a single collision would have left Uranus's moons in retrograde orbits, opposite the direction of the planet's spin. The new theory, based on simulations, is that Uranus was hit by at least two bodies.
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- The axis of Uranus is tilted at an angle of 98-degrees compared to the Sun’s orbital plane. Uranus. Image credit: Hubble. While the rest of the planets in the Solar System can be thought of like spinning tops, Uranus is more like a rolling ball going around the Sun.
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Uranus uranus is the seventh planet from the sun it has the third largest planetary radius and fourth largest planetary mass in the solar system uranus is similar in composition to neptune and both have different bulk chemical composition from that of the larger gas giants jupiter and saturn
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Uranus Like the other giant planets, Uranus has a ring system, a magnetosphere, and numerous moons. The Uranian system has a unique configuration among those of the planets because its axis of rotation is tilted sideways, nearly into the plane of its solar orbit. Its north and south poles, therefore, lie where most other planets have their equators.
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- It takes Uranus just over 17 hours to make one rotation.
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Exploration of Uranus Uranus is the third largest planet in the solar system. It orbits the sun at a distance of about 1.7 billion miles (2.8 billion kilometers) and completes one orbit every 84 years. The length of a day on Uranus as measured by Voyager 2 is 17 hours, 14 minutes.Uranus is distinguished by the fact that it is tipped on its side. Its unusual position is thought to be the result of a collision with a planet-sized body early in the solar system’s history.ranus is the third largest planet in the solar system. It orbits the sun at a distance of about 1.7 billion miles (2.8 billion kilometers) and completes one orbit every 84 years. The length of a day on Uranus as measured by Voyager 2 is 17 hours, 14 minutes.
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The Planet Uranus The variation of Uranus’ distance from the Sun is also greater than that any other planet (not including dwarf planets or plutoids). Essentially, the gas giant’s distance from the Sun varies from 18.28 AU (2,735,118,100 km) at perihelion to 20.09 AU (3,006,224,700 km) at aphelion.ecause Uranus orbits the Sun almost on its side, and the large moons all orbit around Uranus’ equatorial plane, the northern and southern hemispheres experience prolonged periods of daytime and nighttime (42 years at a time). As of 2008, Uranus is known to possess 13 inner moons whose orbits lie inside that of Miranda.
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Uranus One astronomical unit (abbreviated as AU), is the distance from the sun to Earth. From this distance, it takes sunlight 2 hours and 40 minutes to travel from the sun to Uranus. Orbit and Rotation. One day on Uranus takes about 17 hours (the time it takes for Uranus to rotate or spin once). And Uranus makes a complete orbit around the sun (a year in Uranian time) in about 84 Earth years (30,687 Earth days).