URANUS IS AMAZING.

DEMOGRAPHICS ABOUT URANUS.

• Uranus is the 3rd Gas Giant.
• Uranus's mass is 8.683x10^25.
• It's the 4th most massive planet and the 3rd largest.
• Uranus is also 51,120 km in diameter.
• Uranus is 4.5 billion years old.

MORE DEMOGRAPHICS

• Uranus has 2 sets of rings: inner & outer.
• Uranus rotates on it side: 97.86 degree inclination.
• Max surface temp: 58 degrees Celsius
• Min surface temp: -88 degrees Celsius
• Surface area: 8.083 billion km^2

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION

• Atmosphere: 82.5% hydrogen, 15.2% helium, and 2.3% methane.
• Composition: 25% rock, 60-70% ice, and 5-15% hydrogen & helium.
• Internal structure: mantle of water, ammonia, and methane gases.
• Uranus doesn't really have a surface: it's made of ice and gas.

PLANETARY COMPOSITION

SO, WHY IS URANUS BLUE?

• The methane in the upper atmosphere is at fault.
• Sunlight holds all colors of the spectrum.
• When light hits Uranus, the red light is absorbed,
• But the blue/green light is reflected.

URANUS' SATELLITES

URANUS HAS MANY MOONS

• It has 27 to be exact.
• The 5 main ones are as follows:
• Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon.
• Uranus' satellite system is the least massive of GG's.
• The moons are roughly 50% ice and 50% rock.

HOW DO URANUS AND EARTH COMPARE?

• Uranus is 63.1 times the size of Earth in volume.
• Uranus's mass is 8.68x10^25 kg.
• Earth's mass is 5.9737x10^24.
• Uranus' gravity is 8.43 m/s^2.
• Earth's gravity is 9.766 m/s^2.

HOW DOES URANUS COMPARE TO eARTH?

• Size:

HOW DO URANUS AND EARTH COMPARE?

• Uranus' revolution takes 84.02 Earth years.
• Earth's revolution takes 1 Earth year.
• Uranus' rotation takes 17 hours and 14 minutes.
• BUTT, different parts of Uranus rotate at different speeds.
• Earth's rotation takes 24 hours.

PUT IT INTO PERSPECTIVE.

• Size:

LIFE ON URANUS?

• Sadly, no.
• Uranus and its moons are all over 50% ice.
• Also, Uranus doesn't have a definable surface.
• Uranus is extremely cold, too.
• No form of energy either.

MORE ABOUT URANUS.

• 1st planet discovered w/ telescope; 1781.
• William Herschel tried to name Uranus after King George III.
• He came up with Georgian Sidus.
• He wasn't a very creative suck up.
• Only spacecraft to visit Uranus is Voyager 2 in 1986.

URANUS JOKES!

• What do the starship enterprise and toilet paper have in common?
• They both circle Uranus and wipe out Klingons!
• I saw Uranus through my telescope.
• I made a scale model of Uranus in 3rd grade.
• It was too big for the classroom.

WORKS CITED

• Http://planets.findthedata.org/compare/3-7/Earth-vs-Uranus
• Http://www.space.com/54-uranus-seventh-planet-in-the-earths-solar-system-wa...
• Http://www.optcorp.com/articles/uranus-orbit-and-rotation
• Https://pds.ipl.nasa.gov/planets/special/uranus.html
• Http://www.universetoday.com/18855/uranus

WORKS CITED

• Http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/ask/132-how-many-moons-does-uranus-have
• Http://www.universetoday.com/18867/color-of-uranus/