Missions to Uranus
| Mission |
Country |
Launch Date |
Arrival Date |
Type |
Encounter Characteristics |
|
| Voyager 2 |
USA |
August 20, 1977 |
January 24, 1986 |
Flyby |
7000 images of Uranus, its rings, and its satellites |
An Overview of Space Exploration
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The plain bluegreen face of Uranus shows that Uranus is made of of only one thing. Beside clouds, there is also smog. Uranus' atmosphere is still forming. Motions in the cloud patterns indicate that, like
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Uranus has // Call the moon count function defined in the document head print_moon_count('uranus'); interesting moons and a ring system. At Uranus there is even a half ring, or "ring arc". The moons are
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The Giant planets do not have the same kind of layers inside that the earth-like planets do. The history of the giant planets was so different that they formed with much more gas on the inside. Uranus
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Uranus is the tilted planet. The axis through its North and South Poles is tilted by 98°. In other words, Uranus is lying on its side! That's not all - the magnetic field of Uranus is tilted, too. Astronomers
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Uranus' atmosphere is made of methane, a medium sized molecule. At the uppermost reaches of the atmosphere, methane gas breaks apart due to energy from the sun and from the magnetosphere. The remins of
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Motion of air in the atmosphere means wind. The major winds in the Uranian atmosphere called zonal winds. Motion of air in the atmosphere can also happen by diffusion. There is a continual circulation
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This is the temperature profile of Uranus' entire atmosphere. The horizontal lines indicate the boundaries between the troposphere, the stratosphere, the mesosphere, and the thermosphere.
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