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Uranus is a ball of ice and gas, so you can't really say that it has a surface. If you tried to land a spacecraft on Uranus, it would just sink down through ... When we look at Uranus, we see the blue-green color that seems to come from the surface of Uranus. This color is light from the Sun reflected off Uranus' surface.

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Uranus: The Surface

The gaseous giant Uranus has no surface as we think of it. The planet is actually a fluid body—its constituent elements do not condense in space. Rather than a clean demarcation between the planet’s surface and its surrounding atmosphere, Uranus’s surface is its atmosphere.

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The Clouds and Activity on the Surface

Uranus was once thought to be a much tamer planet than Jupiter or Neptune, due to the fact that surface activity seemed minimal. However, recent changes in the planet's orbit has had a very strong effect on Uranus.

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The Surface and Interior of Uranus

This is believed to be due to Uranus being further from the Sun than Jupiter and Saturn, which means its temperature is lower (only 58 degrees Kelvin in the upper atmosphere). This decreases the liklihood of chemical reactions making the colorful compounds that give the surface features on Jupiter and Saturn.

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Uranus Fact Sheet

Uranus/Earth Comparison ... Surface Pressure: >>1000 bars Temperature at 1 bar: 76 K (-197 C) Temperature at 0.1 bar: 53 K (-220 C) Density at 1 bar: 0.42 kg/m3 Wind speeds: 0-200 m/s Scale height: 27.7 km Mean molecular weight: 2.64 g/mole Atmospheric composition (by volume, uncertainty in parentheses) Major:

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Uranus

Interior & Surface; Atmosphere; Magnetosphere; Moons & Rings; The Poles of Uranus; Planetary Facts; Myth & Culture; Space Missions; Discover Uranus; Latest News from Uranus; Image Archives; Uranus' Web...

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Uranus

Uranus is the seventh planet and third 'Gas Giant'. ... It's peculiar because it's surface seems to display just about every surface-feature known in the Solar System. It's possible the moon has broken-up and slowly the pieces; (by gravity and collisions) were put back together explaining it's varied surface appearance.

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Uranus

The mass of Uranus is 14.5 times greater than the mass of Earth, and its volume is 67 times greater than that of Earth. The force of gravity at the surface of Uranus is 1.17 times the force of gravity on Earth.

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A Theory for Narrow-Banded Radio Bursts at Uranus: MHD Surface Waves

Citation: Farrell, W. M., S. A. Curtis, M. D. Desch, and R. P. Lepping (1992), A Theory for Narrow-Banded Radio Bursts at Uranus: MHD Surface Waves as an Energy Driver, J. Geophys. Res., 97(A4), 4133–4141.

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Uranus

Very little is known about the surface of Uranus. It is believed by most astronomers that the planet is covered in clouds. Astronomers don't know for sure, but they have estimated that the surface temperature of Uranus is about -357 degrees Farenheit ( -216 degrees Celcius).

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