https://padlet.com/cdetore/4yx6zbj5f5zl Made with wonder en-us 2016-10-07 17:55:12 UTC 2016-10-24 14:45:07 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Planets.png https://padlet.com/cdetore/4yx6zbj5f5zl/wish/132712116 Uranus spins lying on its side (like a barrel), this is perhaps due to a large collision early in its formation.]]> 2016-10-24 14:29:48 UTC https://padlet.com/cdetore/4yx6zbj5f5zl/wish/132712116 https://padlet.com/cdetore/4yx6zbj5f5zl/wish/132712293 Uranus spins lying on its side (like a barrel), this is perhaps due to a large collision early in its formation.]]> 2016-10-24 14:30:07 UTC https://padlet.com/cdetore/4yx6zbj5f5zl/wish/132712293 https://padlet.com/cdetore/4yx6zbj5f5zl/wish/132712974

Since Uranus takes 84 Earth years to go around the sun, this means that each of its poles is in daylight for 42 years and in darkness for the next 42.

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Uranus’s atmosphere is mostly hydrogen but it also contains large amounts of a gas called methane. Methane absorbs red light and scatters blue light so a blue-green methane haze hides the interior of the planet from view.

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Uranus hides its interior but scientists guess that under the hydrogen-methane atmosphere is a hot, slushy ocean of water, ammonia and methane thousands of miles deep wrapped around a rocky core.

]]> 2016-10-24 14:34:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cdetore/4yx6zbj5f5zl/wish/132714377 https://padlet.com/cdetore/4yx6zbj5f5zl/wish/132715757 It would take you many years to fly a rocket to Uranus. When you arrived you would weigh less because Uranus' gravity is not as strong as the Earth's. If you weigh 70 pounds (32 kg) on Earth, you would weigh 62 pounds (28 kg) on Uranus.

The Planet
Like Jupiter and Saturn, Uranus is a gas giant. But Uranus is a little different. Unlike all the other planets and most of the moons in our Solar System, Uranus spins on its side. It is believed that long ago a very large object smashed into this planet. The crash was so powerful that it completely changed the direction of Uranus' planetary rotation. However, a more recent theory is that the extreme tilt of Uranus' axis may have been caused by a large moon that was slowly pulled away from the planet by another large planet long ago when our Solar System was still new. It is thought that the gravitational pull of this moon moving away from Uranus may have caused it to tilt on its side.Like Saturn, the thick atmosphere of Uranus is made up of methane, hydrogen and helium. But Uranus is an extremely cold planet. It has been called the "ice giant." It is believed that Uranus is made up of rock and ice and has a large rocky core. Because of the tremendous planetary pressure of Uranus, there could possibly be trillions of large diamonds in or on the surface of this planet.Scientists also believe that on the surface of Uranus there may be a huge ocean. And, interestingly, it is thought that the temperature of this ocean may be extremely hot, maybe even as hot as 5000 degrees Fahrenheit (2760 Celsius).Uranus is almost identical to the planet Neptune.Rings
Uranus also has rings, though they don't stretch out as far as the rings of Saturn. The rings of Uranus are made up of black dust particles and large rocks.

Moons:
Uranus has 27 moons. Five of these moons are large and the rest are smaller. The largest moon is Titania, followed by Oberon, Umbriel, Ariel and Miranda. Some of the smaller moons are named: Belinda, Bianca, Caliban, Cordelia, Cressida, Desdemona, Juliet, Ophelia, Portia, Puck, and Rosalind.

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]]> 2016-10-24 14:37:47 UTC https://padlet.com/cdetore/4yx6zbj5f5zl/wish/132715757 https://padlet.com/cdetore/4yx6zbj5f5zl/wish/132716980 Uranus was the first planet discovered by telescope. A lot of the other planets were discovered in ancient times, but Uranus was spotted with a telescope. The reason it wasn’t discovered in ancient times is that it was too dim.]]> 2016-10-24 14:41:01 UTC https://padlet.com/cdetore/4yx6zbj5f5zl/wish/132716980 https://padlet.com/cdetore/4yx6zbj5f5zl/wish/132717433 Uranus was the first planet discovered by telescope. A lot of the other planets were discovered in ancient times, but Uranus was spotted with a telescope. The reason it wasn’t discovered in ancient times is that it was too dim.]]> 2016-10-24 14:42:10 UTC https://padlet.com/cdetore/4yx6zbj5f5zl/wish/132717433 https://padlet.com/cdetore/4yx6zbj5f5zl/wish/132717814

But John Flamsteed was wrong, as it was first officially discovered on March 13th 1781 by William Herschel. At first he thought it was a comet, but a couple of years later it was confirmed as a planet. Herschel tried to have his discovery named ‘Georgian Sidus’ after King George III. But he didn’t win the battle as the name Uranus was finally suggested by astronomer Johann Bode. The name comes from the ancient Greek deity Ouranos who was the lord of the skies and husband of earth. He was also king of the Earth until he was kicked out of his important position by his son Saturn! How rude.This was one hard planet to discover and name all at the same time.

]]> 2016-10-24 14:43:09 UTC https://padlet.com/cdetore/4yx6zbj5f5zl/wish/132717814 https://padlet.com/cdetore/4yx6zbj5f5zl/wish/132718345 So it looks like a boring blue ball, but obviously we can’t really see the bands of clouds and storms that you see on Jupiter and Saturn. But if you look just a little closer in other wavelengths, like infrared, you’ll actually see these bands and cloud patterns. Early observations of Uranus didn’t show anything, but telescopes got more advanced and in the 1990s showed that Uranus has bright regions in its atmosphere. Some of these clouds only last for hours, while others have been around since the Voyager flyby in 1986. Apparently the wind speeds are something quite spectacular too, traveling at a rapid pace.]]> 2016-10-24 14:44:31 UTC https://padlet.com/cdetore/4yx6zbj5f5zl/wish/132718345