URANUS

     Uranus Characteristics:

• It is the third largest and the fourth with the most mass of the Solar System.

• The atmosphere of Uranus is formed by hydrogen, methane and other hydrocarbons.

• Uranus is tilted so that the equator makes almost right angle. This causes that in some moments the hottest part, facing the Sun, is one of the poles.

• Uranus is also the first to be discovered thanks to the telescope, in 1781.

• Saturn. It is so far away that, from Uranus, the Sun seems one more star.

     Fun facts from Uranus:

• Uranus, discovered by William Herschel in 1781, is visible without a telescope.

• In 1977 the first 9 rings of Uranus were discovered. In 1986, the visit of the Voyager spacecraft allowed to measure and photograph the rings, and to discover two new ones. 

• Uranus have a lot of moons,but this are the five biggest ones: Titan, Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel and Oberon...

• Uranus tours the Sun every 84.01 Earth years. Its average distance to the Sun is approximately 3,000 million kilometers (2870990000 km). The intensity of the Sun's light to Uranus is about 1/400 that on Earth

        Stories of Uranus:

• Uranus is the primordial god of the sky in the mitology 

• The first time Uranus was seen was in 1690 when John Flamsteed observed the planet at least six times