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Title = Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. Its name is a reference to the Greek god of the sky, Uranus, who, according to Greek mythology, was the grandfather of Zeus (Jupiter) and father of Cronus (Saturn). It has the third-largest planetary radius and fourth-largest planetary mass in the Solar System. Uranus is similar in composition to Neptune, and both have bulk chemical compositions which differ from that of the larger gas giants Jupiter and Saturn. For this reason, scientists often classify Uranus and Neptune as "ice giants" to distinguish them from the other gas giants. The Uranian axis of rotation is approximately parallel with the plane of the Solar System, with an axial tilt of 97.770x00B0 (as defined by prograde rotation). This gives it seasonal changes completely unlike those of the other planets. Near the solstice, one pole faces the Sun continuously and the other faces away. Only a narrow strip around the equator experiences a rapid day0x2013night cycle, but with the Sun low over the horizon. At the other side of Uranus's orbit the orientation of the poles towards the Sun is reversed. Each pole gets around 42 years of continuous sunlight, followed by 42 years of darkness. Image of Uranus obtained in 2005 by ACS on HST. Rings, southern collar and a bright cloud in the northern hemisphere are visible.
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02_CompareEarth/License = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Uranus,_Earth_size_comparison_2.jpg
02_CompareEarth/Title = Diameter comparison of Uranus and Earth
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04_Aurorae/License = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alien_aurorae_on_Uranus.jpg
04_Aurorae/Title = Ever since Voyager 2 beamed home spectacular images of the planets in the 1980s, planet-lovers have been hooked on extra-terrestrial aurorae. In 2011, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope became the first Earth-based telescope to snap an image of the aurorae on Uranus. These pictures are form 2017.
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05_Aurorae/Title = Uranus's aurorae against its equatorial rings, imaged by the Hubble telescope. Unlike the aurorae of Earth and Jupiter, those of Uranus are not in line with its poles, due to its lopsided magnetic field.
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80_Moons_Miranda_1/Title = Miranda, also designated Uranus V, is the smallest and innermost of Uranus's five round satellites. It is named after Miranda from William Shakespeare's play The Tempest. Like the other large moons of Uranus, Miranda orbits close to its planet's equatorial plane. Because Uranus orbits the Sun on its side, Miranda's orbit is perpendicular to the ecliptic and shares Uranus' extreme seasonal cycle. At just 470 km in diameter, Miranda is one of the smallest closely observed objects in the Solar System that might be in hydrostatic equilibrium (spherical under its own gravity).
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80_Moons_Miranda_2_Close/Title = The fault scarps around Elsinore (top right) and the chevrons of Inverness Corona (bottom left). Miranda has one of the most extreme and varied topographies of any object in the Solar System, including Verona Rupes, a 20-kilometer-high scarp that is the highest cliff in the Solar System.
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