The story for kids
This is Uranus. Uranus is a funny planet. It's lying on its side and rolls around the Sun, like a ball rolling across the floor. Its color is blue-green, like sea water. Uranus is very far from the Sun, so it's very, very cold there. It has thin rings and lots of moons. Their names come from old stories, like Miranda, Ariel, Titania, and Oberon.
Facts
- It rolls around the Sun lying on its side.
- Each pole has about 42 years of day, then 42 years of night.
- Its blue-green colour comes from methane gas.
Numbers
- Size (Earth = 1)
- 4
- Year
- 84 years
- One turn
- 17 hours
- Moons
- 25+
For grown-ups
This is Uranus. It is a very strange planet: it lies on its side and seems to roll around the Sun. Because of this, each of its poles has about forty-two years of daylight, followed by forty-two years of night. Uranus gets its blue-green colour from methane gas. It is an ice giant, and it is very cold. One orbit around the Sun takes eighty-four years. Uranus has thin rings and more than twenty-five moons.