Meet the Ice Giant
Uranus is this number planet from the Sun.
What is the 7th planet?
Uranus doesn’t spin upright — it’s tilted by this many degrees.
What is 98 degrees?
Uranus has this many known moons
What is 27 moons?
Uranus was discovered in 1781 by this curious astronomer.
Who is William Herschel?
Deep inside Uranus, scientists believe it might literally rain this precious substance.
What are diamonds?
Uranus is classified as this type of planet.
What is an ice giant?
Scientists think this dramatic tilt happened after a collision with a massive object long ago.
What is a planet-sized impact?
The moons of Uranus are named after characters from the works of these two authors.
Who are William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope?
Herschel first thought Uranus might be this, not a planet.
What is a comet?
Uranus’s magnetic field is unlike any other planet’s — it’s both tilted and this.
What is off-center from the core?
The planet’s bluish-green color comes from this gas in its atmosphere.
What is methane?
Because of its tilt, each pole faces the Sun for this many years before switching to darkness..
What is 42 years?
The largest moon of Uranus
What is Titania?
Herschel wanted to name Uranus after this famous British king.
Who is King George III?
The planet emits surprisingly little of this, making it colder than even Neptune.
What is internal heat?
Uranus takes this long to complete one full orbit around the Sun
What is 84 Earth years?
Unlike most planets, Uranus rotates in this unusual direction.
What is retrograde (on its side)?
Uranus has rings...They were discovered in this year — by accident.
What is 1977?
This spacecraft remains the only visitor to Uranus, flying by in 1986
What is Voyager 2?
Uranus’s clouds are mostly made of this compound, which also gives us cleaning supplies.
What is ammonia?
Uranus’s average temperature makes it the coldest planet in the solar system
What is –371°F
If Earth had Uranus’s tilt, summer in North America would last roughly this long.
What is 42 years of daylight?
The rings are unusually dark, likely made of this material.
What is carbon-rich dust and rock coated in ice?
Voyager 2 revealed that Uranus’s atmosphere is made mostly of these two light gases.
What are hydrogen and helium?
Scientists plan to send a new mission to Uranus around this decade
What is the 2040s?