Uranus Interesting Facts – Fun Facts About Uranus
Fun Facts About Uranus
* Uranus has a windy atmosphere. Winds blowing with great speeds of 200 miles per hour, is a common thing on the surface of Uranus.
* The average temperature on Uranus is around minus 360 degrees Fahrenheit.
* Uranus has rings of ice and small rock particles which are so pale that they appear as black as charcoal.
* Uranus has as many as 27 moons. But these are tiny, and even if we add their total weight it is less than half of the total weight of Triton – Neptune’s largest moon.
* Uranus is the third largest planet in the solar system in diameter.
* A day on Uranus is only a little shorter than a day on Earth, at about 17 hours long.
* Uranus is located between Saturn and Neptune and is approximately 1.8 billion miles from the Sun.
Uranus Interesting Facts
* Uranus is also very big and windy. Fifty Earths could fit inside of it, but they probably wouldn’t stay inside because the 200 mile-per-hour surface winds would pull them out.
* Uranus moves around the Sun on its side. The South Pole of Uranus is pointed towards Earth. The angle of the slope of the axis of Uranus is 97 degrees.
* Uranus’ pale blue color is caused by the methane in its atmosphere which sifts out red light.
* Uranus comes under the category of ‘one of the few brightest planets’ seen from the earth.
* Uranus does not have a liquid metallic core like the other gas giants.
* Uranus is about four times as large as the Earth and 15 times as heavy.
* Uranus is the coldest planet in the Solar System.
* Uranus is a planet with a dull and featureless, pale blue surface.
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