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Uranus
An ice giant of water, methane and ammonia over a rocky core, four times the Earth's width, and the pale green-blue is methane absorbing the red out of the sunlight. It is tipped on its side - its axis lies almost in the plane of its orbit - so each pole spends forty-two years in daylight and forty-two in darkness. One spacecraft has been there, Voyager 2, for six hours in 1986.
- Radius
- 25,559 km
- Around the equator
- 160,592 km
- Mass
- 8.68 x 10^25 kg
- Compared with the Earth
- 15 ×
- Turns once in
- 17 h 14 m (backwards)
- From the Sun
- 2,908,037,685 km (-27,115 km/d)
- From the Earth
- 2,800,948,164 km (-1,790,327 km/d)
- A signal takes
- 2 h 36 m
Distances and speed are computed from JPL Horizons trajectories and are true of the date below, changing at the rate beside each.
Everything the map shows is worked out in your browser from published orbital data - nothing on it is a stored picture of where things were.