Hello everybody! Welcome to my blog. Today we are going to talk about the planet Uranus. Well.... here we go.

Uranus was discovered on March 30th 1781 by William Herschel. Uranus got its name from  Uranus is named after the ancient Greek god of the sky, who was the father of Kronos.

Yes Uranus does has rings here are some facts about them: Uranus has 9 brighter rings as well as several fainter rings. Some of the larger rings are surrounded by belts of fine dust. The outermost ring is made up of ice boulders several feet across. The other rings are made up mainly of icy chunks darkened by rocks. The rings are thin, narrow, and dark compared to the rings of other planets. 

Uranus has 27 moons that we know of. One of the bigger moons is Titania. Here is some information about Titania. Titania is Uranus's largest moon. A prominent system of large valleys, some nearly 1,000 miles long, are visible near the shadow line. The moon is about 1,600 km long in diameter. 

  
Uranus is a giant ball of ice and gas so you can't really say that is has a surface  If you tried to land a spacecraft on Uranus, it would just sink down through the upper atmosphere of hydrogen and helium, and into the liquid icy center. When you look at Uranus see the blue-green color that seems to come from the surface of Uranus. This color is light from the Sun reflected off Uranus’ surface. The atmosphere of Uranus contains hydrogen and helium, and most importantly, it has relatively large amounts of methane. This methane absorbs color in the red end of the spectrum of light, while photons at the blue end of the spectrum are able to reflect off the clouds and go back into space. So the full spectrum of the Sun’s light goes in, the red and orange end of the spectrum is absorbed, and the blue green end of the spectrum bounces back out. And this is why the surface of Uranus has its color.
                                         
Uranus is different from the other planets because Uranus has a very weird axis rotation. because its axis of rotation is tilted sideways, nearly into the plane of its revolution about the Sun. Its north and south poles therefore lie where most other planets have their equators.
                                   
Guess what time it is! It's Fun Fact Time! Here are some Fun Facts about Uranus!!!!!

1) Uranus is the 7th planet from the sun.

2) Uranus's largest moon is named Titania.

3) Uranus has 27 moons in total.

4) Uranus was discovered by William Herschel.

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 has one of the most unusual orbital characteristics in the solar system. In contrast to most other planets, Uranus's ax moving in a large circle, Uranus is more like a barrel, rolling on its side in a bigger circle. The cause of this peculiarity is unknown, but one theory presents it as being the result of a collision between a massive body sometime in ts past. Thus, with the planet's south pole pointing toward the , Uranus receives more solar input in that area than it does on the equator! However, an unusual fact is that the equator is still hotter than any other area of the planet, a phenomena that remains currently unexplained.
   

































































































































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