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  2. In Depth | Uranus – NASA Solar System Exploration

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    The seventh planet from the Sun with the third largest diameter in our solar system, Uranus is very cold and windy. The ice giant is surrounded by 13 faint rings and 27 small moons as it rotates at a nearly 90-degree angle from the plane of its orbit.

  3. Uranus By the Numbers – NASA Solar System Exploration

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    Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun, and the third largest planet in our solar system. It appears to spin sideways.

  4. In Depth | Our Solar System – NASA Solar System Exploration

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    Our solar system consists of our star, the Sun, and everything bound to it by gravity – the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune; dwarf planets such as Pluto; dozens of moons; and millions of asteroids, comets, and meteoroids.

  5. Planet Compare - NASA Solar System Exploration

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    NASA’s real-time science encyclopedia of deep space exploration. Our scientists and far-ranging robots explore the wild frontiers of our solar system.

  6. Uranus orbits our Sun, a star, and is the seventh planet from the Sun at a distance of about 1.8 billion miles (2.9 billion kilometers).

  7. In Depth | Neptune – NASA Solar System Exploration

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    Neptune is one of two ice giants in the outer solar system (the other is Uranus). Most (80% or more) of the planet's mass is made up of a hot dense fluid of "icy" materials – water, methane, and ammonia – above a small, rocky core. Of the giant planets, Neptune is the densest.

  8. In Depth | Moons – NASA Solar System Exploration

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    Of the terrestrial (rocky) planets of the inner solar system, neither Mercury nor Venus have any moons at all, Earth has one and Mars has its two small moons. In the outer solar system, the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn and the ice giants Uranus and Neptune have dozens of moons.

  9. Uranus - NASA Solar System Exploration

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    Uranus Right Now. Latest Stories. Previous. One Way Light Time to the Sun. Loading... Length of Year. 30,687 Earth Days. Planet Type. Ice Giant. Distance from Sun. 1,733,060,107 mi km. One Way Light Time to the Sun. 162.652333 mins. Length of Year. 30,658 Earth Days. Planet Type. Ice Giant. Distance from Sun. Loading... mi km. One Way Light ...

  10. Why Uranus and Neptune Are Different Colors

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    Astronomers now have an explanation for why the two planets are different colors. New research suggests that a layer of concentrated haze that exists on both planets is thicker on Uranus than a similar layer on Neptune and ‘whitens’ Uranus's appearance more than Neptune’s .

  11. In Depth | Uranus Moons – NASA Solar System Exploration

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    All of Uranus's inner moons (those observed by Voyager 2) appear to be roughly half water ice and half rock. The composition of the moons outside the orbit of Oberon remains unknown, but they are likely captured asteroids.