3rd of the 4 gas giants. Uranus has a rocky core wrapped in a mantle of
gases and ice. Surrounding the mantle is an atmosphere containing methane, which gives
Uranus it's distinctive blue-green color. Cloud tops have a temperature of -210 C (-346
F). Uranus has 15 moons and a ring system. Uranus has almost no visable features. Only 1
feature has been observed by the space probe Voyager 2 in 1986, and that was a few methane
clouds.
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