Uranus Facts - Science@NASA
WEBOrbit and Rotation. One day on Uranus takes about 17 hours. This is the amount of time it takes Uranus to rotate, or spin once around its axis. Uranus makes a complete orbit around the Sun (a year in Uranian time) in about 84 Earth years (30,687 Earth days).
In Depth | Uranus – NASA Solar System Exploration
WEBOrbit and Rotation. One day on Uranus takes about 17 hours (the time it takes for Uranus to rotate or spin once). And Uranus makes a complete orbit around the Sun (a year in Uranian time) in about 84 Earth years (30,687 Earth days).
Orbit and Rotation of Uranus - Planet Facts
WEBThe rotational period of Uranus’ is 17 hours and 14 minutes (compared to Earth time, a day on Uranus is approximately 17 hours and 14 minutes). However, just like on the other giant planets, it also experiences relatively strong winds going in the direction of its rotation.
Uranus Facts | Rotation, Rings, Atmosphere, Size, History
WEBSep 26, 2019 · It takes Uranus 84 years to complete an orbit of the Sun, the longest from all the planets in the solar system. It also has the shortest day. One rotation on Uranus takes about 17 hours. Uranus has the coldest planetary atmosphere in the solar system, -224 degrees Celsius;-371 degrees Fahrenheit.
Uranus - Wikipedia
WEBIt has a marked axial tilt of 82.23° with a retrograde rotation period of 17 hours and 14 minutes. This means that in an 84-Earth-year orbital period around the Sun, its poles get around 42 years of continuous sunlight, followed by 42 years of continuous darkness.
Uranus | Facts, Moons, & Rings | Britannica
WEB1 day ago · Earth-based attempts to measure a property as basic as the planetary rotation period had produced widely differing values, ranging from 24 to 13 hours, until Voyager 2 finally established a 17.24-hour rotation period for the Uranian interior.
Uranus - NASA Science
WEBUranus is a very cold and windy planet. It is surrounded by faint rings, and more than two dozen small moons as it rotates at a nearly 90-degree angle from the plane of its orbit. This unique tilt makes Uranus appear to spin on its side.
The planet Uranus - Discovery, rotation, revolution, thick haze ...
WEBThe rotation and revolution of Uranus. At a distance of about 1.8 billion miles (2.9 billion kilometers), Uranus is the seventh planet from the sun. It revolves around the sun once every 84 years in a large elliptical (oval-shaped) orbit.
Uranus Fact Sheet - NSSDCA
WEBMar 11, 2024 · Model GSFC-O 3. Dipole field strength: 0.228 Gauss-Ru 3 Dipole tilt to rotational axis: 58.6 degrees Longitude of tilt: 53.6 degrees Dipole offset: 0.352 Ru Surface (1 Ru) field strength: ~0.1 - 1.0 Gauss. Ru denotes Uranian model radius, here defined to …
Uranus - Gas Giant, Rings, Moons | Britannica - Encyclopedia Britannica
WEB5 days ago · At high latitudes on Uranus, this relative motion is in the direction of the planet’s rotation. At equatorial latitudes the relative motion is in the opposite direction. Uranus is like Earth in this regard.