Planet Uranus Facts: Lesson for Kids

34 years ago today, we flew by Uranus for the first (and only) time. Voyager 2 radioed a ton of images and data, but a lot about the planet remains a mystery. | SciShow

👉The Only Close Visit to Uranus Ever Made On January 24, 1986, NASA’s Voyager 2 made history by becoming the first—and still the only—spacecraft to fly past Uranus. After traveling through the outer solar system for nine years, it passed just 81,500 kilometers above the planet’s cloud tops, giving humanity its first close look at this distant ice giant. Before Voyager 2’s arrival, Uranus appeared as little more than a blue-green dot through telescopes on Earth. That brief flyby changed everythi

40 years ago, Voyager 2 made its closest approach to Uranus. To this day, it remains the only spacecraft to ever observe the distant gas giant up close. The encounter began in November 1985 and lasted through February 1986. In all, the spacecraft returned more than 7,000 photographs, revealing 11 new moons, and two new rings orbiting the planet, and a wealth of information for scientists to analyze for years to come. | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

😯👉Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun and one of the giants of our solar system. It is so large that about 63 Earths could fit inside it. Although it does not receive as much attention as Jupiter or Saturn, Uranus is still an enormous world. With a diameter of roughly 50,724 kilometers, it is about four times wider than Earth and has more than 60 times Earth’s volume — a clear sign of its immense size. A helpful way to understand this scale is to imagine stacking Earths inside Uranus. Do

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