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Two pictures of Uranus taken at an interval of 90 minutes. It is easy to see how far 8 of the moons of Uranus moved around Uranus in just 90 minutes. The picture on the left was taken first. These false-color pictures are a combination of three near-infrared images.
The distance the bright clouds moved in 90 minutes is also easy to see.
Picture of the planet Uranus by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
Uranus appears tipped over when viewed from Earth. We see its south pole - the bright area on the left-hand side of Uranus. This bright area is a high altitude haze in the atmosphere of the planet Uranus - not an ice cap.
The south pole of Uranus points to the Sun during part of its orbit around the Sun.
From Earth, we also see the rings of Uranus from 'overhead' - high above the south pole of Uranus - and not about edge-on like with the planet Saturn.
Epsilon, a bright and the outermost ring of Uranus, is clearly visible.
Some of the moons of Uranus appear as three dots (at the bottom) in this photograph because this photograph is a combination of three photographs.
Image Credit: Kenneth Seidelmann, U.S. Naval Observatory, and NASA
A true color picture of the planet Uranus. The blue/green color of Uranus is caused by methane in the atmosphere. Uranus is 2.8 billion kilometers from Earth. Uranus is a gas giant. It is made mostly from water, ammonia, methane, hydrogen and helium.
Picture of William Herschel - he discovered Uranus in 1781
Picture of bright, high altitude clouds on Uranus. Three hours elapsed between the first two photos. Another 5 hours elapsed before the third photo was taken. Uranus takes 7 hours, 14 minutes to spin once on its axis. As can be seen on this picture, Uranus is unfortunately somewhat featureless when viewed from earth.
A picture of Uranus, its rings and some of its moons. This is a false color picture of Uranus, showing some of the 20 clouds of Uranus that are visible by the Hubble Space Telescope.
