Photos of the planet Uranus from space. How to draw the planets of the solar system. Finishing drawing the orbits
November 15th, 2013
Uranus is far left
These are two planets of almost the same size with similar chemical compositions; they are smaller and denser than Jupiter and Saturn. Each of these planets is at the center of a miniature system of satellites and rings.
Each of these planets clearly suffered from a violent collision with another cosmic body in very ancient times.
The atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune, like those of Jupiter and Saturn, are mainly composed of hydrogen and helium. But astronomers call Uranus and Neptune icy planets because under their atmospheres there are massive bodies of rocky rocks and various ices. In fact, the water is so deep inside these planets and under such high pressure that it is all a hot liquid. But when these planets formed billions of years ago as a result of the merger of small bodies, the water that fell into them was completely frozen.
At the moment, the planets of the solar system are of only scientific interest to researchers and scientists. But perhaps in the future economic benefits will have their say. Space objects located thousands of kilometers away can become springboards for the extraction of valuable minerals.
Scientists have conducted experiments on diamonds, and in particular on their behavior in extreme environments. As a result of the experiment, it became known about the possibility of the existence, on the distant planets of Uranus and Neptune, of huge “diamond icebergs” plowing the diamond seas. During the experiments, diamonds were exposed to enormous temperatures, pressure many times higher than on Earth. And the main surprise was that when melted, diamond has properties similar to ordinary water. The presence of diamond seas, according to scientists, is indicated by the unusual magnetic fields of these planets, which have a characteristic tilt relative to their axis of rotation. And also the fact that these planets contain huge amounts of carbon, which is the main component of the structure of diamond. But this cannot be stated with 100% certainty, and it can only be proven by sending scientific probes to these planets or by simulating the natural conditions of these planets in laboratories.
Uranus, once considered one of the quieter planets, has emerged as a dynamic world with some of the brightest clouds in the solar system and eleven rings. The first planet discovered by telescope, Uranus was discovered in 1781 by astronomer William Herschel. This seventh planet is so far from the Sun that a full revolution around its axis takes 84 years. Uranus, which does not have a solid surface, is one of the gas giant planets (others include Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune).
Uranus' atmosphere is composed primarily of hydrogen and helium, with some methane and traces of water and ammonia. Uranus gets its blue-green color from methane gas. Sunlight reflects off the cloud tops of Uranus, located under a layer of methane. As reflected sunlight passes through this layer, the methane absorbs the red part of the light, allowing the blue part of the light to pass through, hence the blue-green color we see. The planet's atmosphere is difficult to see in detail. Most (80% or more) of Uranus's mass is contained in an elongated liquid core consisting of "ice" components (water, methane and ammonia) with a high-density core at the core.
Just like other gas giants of the solar system, Uranus has a system of rings and a magnetosphere, and in addition, 27 satellites. The orientation of Uranus in space differs from the other planets of the solar system - its axis of rotation lies, as it were, “on its side” relative to the plane of revolution of this planet around the Sun. As a result, the planet faces the Sun alternately with the north pole, the south, the equator, and the middle latitudes.
In 1986, the American spacecraft Voyager 2 transmitted close-range images of Uranus to Earth. They show an “inexpressive” planet in the visible spectrum without cloud bands and atmospheric storms characteristic of other giant planets. However, ground-based observations have now been able to discern signs of seasonal changes and increased weather activity on the planet caused by Uranus approaching its equinox point. Wind speeds on Uranus can reach 240 m/s.
Name
Neville Maskelyne wrote a letter to Herschel in which he asked him to do the astronomical community a favor and give a name to the planet, the discovery of which was entirely the merit of this astronomer. In response, Herschel proposed naming the planet "Georgium Sidus" (Latin for "George's Star"), or Planet George, in honor of King George III. He motivated his decision in a letter to Joseph Banks:
In magnificent antiquity, the planets were given the names Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn in honor of mythical heroes and deities. In our enlightened philosophical times, it would be strange to return to this tradition and call a recently discovered celestial body Juno, Pallas, Apollo or Minerva. When discussing any incident or noteworthy event, the first thing we consider is when exactly it happened. If in the future someone were to wonder when this planet was discovered, a good answer to that question would be: "In the reign of George III."
French astronomer Joseph Lalande proposed to name the planet in honor of its discoverer - “Herschel”. Other names were also proposed: for example, Cybele, after the name that in ancient mythology was borne by the wife of the god Saturn. German astronomer Johann Bode was the first scientist to put forward a proposal to name the planet Uranus, in honor of the god of the sky from the Greek pantheon. He motivated this by the fact that “since Saturn was the father of Jupiter, the new planet should be named in honor of the father of Saturn.” The earliest official naming of the planet Uranus occurs in a scientific work of 1823, a year after Herschel's death. The former name "Georgium Sidus" or "George" was no longer often found, although it had been in use in Britain for almost 70 years. Finally, the planet began to be called Uranus only after the publishing house of His Majesty’s Nautical Almanac “HM Nautical Almanac Office” in 1850 itself secured this name in its lists.
Uranus is the only planet whose name comes not from Roman, but from Greek mythology. The adjectival derivative of “Uranus” is the word “Uranian”. The astronomical symbol "", representing Uranus, is a hybrid of the symbols for Mars and the Sun. The reason for this is that in ancient Greek mythology, Uranus the sky is under the combined power of the Sun and Mars. The astrological symbol of Uranus, proposed by Lalande in 1784, was explained by Lalande himself in a letter to Herschel as follows:
“This is a globe topped with the first letter of your name.”
In Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese and Korean, the name of the planet is literally translated as “Star/Planet of the Heavenly King.”
Perhaps the biggest mystery of Uranus is the extremely unusual direction of its rotation axis, which is tilted by 98 degrees, that is, the rotation axis of Uranus lies almost in the plane of its orbit. Therefore, the movement of Uranus around the Sun is completely special - it rolls along its orbit, turning from side to side, like a bun. Such features of the movement and rotation of Uranus are not consistent with the general picture of the emergence of planets from a preplanetary cloud, all parts of which rotated in the same direction around the Sun. It remains to be assumed that the already formed planet Uranus collided with some other rather large celestial body, as a result of which its axis of rotation deviated greatly from the original direction, and remained in this anomalous position.
This close look at the tilted gas giant Uranus revealed dramatic details of the planet's atmosphere and ring system. This remarkable terrestrial image was taken using the Keck Telescope's near-infrared camera and adaptive optics system to reduce blur caused by Earth's atmosphere. The footage, taken in July 2004, shows us both sides of Uranus. In both images, the tall (white) cloud structures are mostly concentrated in the northern (to our right) hemisphere. Intermediate height clouds are shown in green and low clouds are shown in blue. Against this faux blue background, the red hues clearly highlight the faint rings. Due to the very large tilt of the rotation axis, seasonal changes on Uranus are very strong. Autumn in the southern hemisphere of Uranus began in 2007.
Formation of Uranus
There are many arguments in favor of the fact that the differences between ice and gas giants arose during the formation of the Solar System. The Solar System is believed to have formed from a giant spinning ball of gas and dust known as the Protosolar Nebula. Then the ball became denser, and a disk with the Sun in the center was formed. Most of the hydrogen and helium went into the formation of the Sun. And dust particles began to gather together to subsequently form protoplanets.
As the planets grew in size, some of them acquired a strong enough magnetic field that allowed them to concentrate residual gas around themselves. They continued to gain gas until they reached the limit, and then their size increased exponentially. The ice giants managed to “receive” significantly less gas - the mass of the gas they received was only several times greater than the mass of the Earth. Thus, their mass did not reach this limit. Modern theories of the formation of the Solar System have some difficulties in explaining the formation of Uranus and Neptune. These planets are too large for the distance they are from the Sun. Perhaps they were previously closer to the Sun, but then somehow changed their orbits. However, new planetary modeling methods show that Uranus and Neptune could indeed have formed in their current location, and thus their actual sizes according to these models are not a hindrance to the theory of the origin of the solar system.
Like other giant planets, Uranus' atmosphere shows signs of strong winds blowing parallel to the planet's equator. These are mainly winds rushing from west to east with hurricane speeds from 140 to 580 km/h. But along the equator, the winds blow in the opposite direction, but they are also very strong - 350 km/h.
Under the gas shell there should be an ocean of water, ammonia and methane with a surface temperature of 2200 degrees C. Atmospheric pressure at ocean level is 200 thousand earth atmospheres. Unlike Saturn and Jupiter, there is no metallic hydrogen on Uranus, and the ammonia-methane-water shell 10 thousand kilometers thick passes into a central rock-iron core of solid rock. The temperature there reaches 7000 C, and the pressure is 6 million atmospheres.
It is possible to judge the internal structure of Uranus only by indirect signs. The planet's mass was determined through calculations based on astronomical observations of the gravitational effect that Uranus exerts on its moons. Although Uranus is 60 times larger in volume than our Earth, its mass is only 14.5 times that of Earth. This is due to the fact that the average density of Uranium is 1.27 g/cm 3, that is, slightly more than that of water. Such low densities are typical for all four planets - giants consisting mainly of light chemical elements. It is believed that in the very center of Uranus there is a rocky core composed mainly of silicon oxides. The diameter of the core is 1.5 times larger than our entire Earth. Around it is a shell made of a mixture of water ice and rocks. Higher still is a global ocean of liquid hydrogen, and then a very powerful atmosphere. Another model suggests that Uranus does not have a rocky core at all. In this case, Uranus should look like a huge ball of snow “porridge”, consisting of a mixture of liquid and ice, shrouded in a gaseous shell.
Despite the difficulty of ground-based observations of faint, distant objects such as the moons of Uranus, past astronomers have discovered virtually all of the giant planet's large moons. The main satellites of Uranus are located in the following order (counting from the planet): Miranda (J. Kuiper - 1948), Ariel (W. Lassell - 1851), Umbriel (W. Lassell - 1851), Titania (W. Herschel - 1787), Oberon (W. Herschel - 1787).
Titania is the largest moon in the Uranian system. High-resolution images of Titania have shown that there are significantly fewer ancient impact craters here than on Oberon, with a particularly low number of large craters. Since they undoubtedly once existed, some process was at work which led to their destruction. The entire surface of the satellite is cut up by a system of rifts and intersecting winding valleys, very similar to river beds. The longest ones reach almost 1000 km in length. Some of them are surrounded by light-colored sediment systems on the surface. Interesting information was obtained in a polarimetric experiment: the surface is covered with a layer of porous material. Most likely, this is water frost that condensed on the surface after outpourings of water in cracks (remember Jupiter’s satellite Europa).
Miranda is a strange world that certainly has a turbulent past. The closest of its large moons to Uranus, Miranda has a diameter of about 300 miles and was discovered in 1948 by American planetary explorer Gerard Kuiper. Explored in great detail by the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1986, this distant, dark world turned out to be quite unusual. Unique, puzzling topographic features have been discovered on Miranda, suggesting that it has been fractured at least 5 times during its evolution. Along with the famous "chevron"—the bright, V-shaped area just below the center of this montage of Miranda's highest-resolution images—it reveals a jumbled juxtaposition of ridges and valleys, old cratered surfaces and smooth young surfaces, dark canyons up to 12 miles. The large crater (below center) is Alonso, which is 15 miles in diameter.
Since 1919, the International Astronomical Union decided to establish a generally accepted nomenclature for the designations of planets, satellites and special structures on their surfaces. For the distant system of satellites of Uranus, the names of the heroes of Shakespeare's plays were chosen. Thus, one of the distant and second largest satellites of Uranus was named after Oberon, the king from the comedy “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” And the impressive and truly royal-sized crater on its surface was named after Hamlet (to the right of the center of the picture). In today's picture you see the surface of Oberon as seen by the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
How did gorges form on the surface of Ariel? A theory was developed in which, due to heating caused by the tidal influence of Uranus, “earthquakes” and significant displacements of parts of the surface of the satellite occurred. Now a dense network of gutters is visible on the frozen Ariel, many of which are covered inside with an unknown substance. Ariel is the second moon from Uranus after Miranda. It is made up of half water ice and half rock. Ariel was discovered by William Lassell in 1851.
At the end of September 2010, two planets of the solar system were in the earth's sky exactly opposite the Sun - Jupiter and Uranus. Consequently, both planets were at the points of their orbits closest to Earth. Jupiter was only 33 light minutes away, and the light from Uranus took 2.65 hours to reach us. Both planets were clearly visible in small telescopes. Today's carefully planned composition is the result of combining several photographs at different exposures taken on September 27th. The picture clearly shows both gas giants, seen in such a special spatial arrangement, and you can also find the brightest satellites. The faint green disk of distant Uranus is in the upper left corner of the photo. To the left of the disk you can see two of the planet's five named largest satellites. The majestic gas giant Jupiter reigns on the right side of the image. His four Galilean satellites lined up in a row. The farthest is Callisto. It's on the left.
There, at the very disk of the planet, Europa and Io are located. And Ganymede alone took a place to the right of Jupiter.
Planet-sized objects and their comparison: Top row: Uranus and Neptune; bottom row: Earth, white dwarf Sirius B, Venus.
Sadly, it seems that in the foreseeable future nothing new will become known about Uranus and its satellites. Most likely, several more satellites will be discovered - small and very distant from the planet. But there is hardly any hope for a new flight to Uranus in the next couple of centuries - unless some miracle occurs in space flight technology, which will allow aircraft to move much faster than now. The fact is that only in the middle of the 22nd century will the favorable arrangement of the planets again develop, in which a station launched from Earth to Uranus will be able to receive “gravitational support” from Jupiter and Saturn along the way. Only then, probably, will the third discovery - after those made in the 18th and 20th centuries by the astronomer Herschel and the space robot Voyager - take place - the discovery of the most mysterious of the planets in the solar system.
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The planet Uranus is known as one of the ice giants. It has a mass that is almost 15 times that of Earth. It does not have a solid surface like Earth, and its surface temperature is -197 °C (-323 °F). Some areas of its atmosphere are even colder. Therefore, Uranus is the coldest planet in our solar system. Uranus is one of the outer planets of the solar system and orbits 20 times further from the sun than Earth. Uranus is named after the Greek god of the sky.
The planet Uranus has only been visited by one spacecraft in the last 50 years. This was Voyager 2, which was launched in 1977 to study Jupiter and Saturn. Voyager 2 passed by the planet Uranus in 1986. He discovered 10 additional moons of Uranus. We currently know of 27 known satellites of the planet.
In chapter photo of the planet Uranus Rare photographs of this gas giant taken by the Hubble Space Telescope are posted. These Hubble images show a number of interesting features.
First, the planet Uranus has an axial tilt of 98 degrees. This means it revolves around the Sun on one side all the time. It is the only planet in our solar system with this unusual tilt, which could have been caused by a collision with a large object at the time of the planet's birth. One of the consequences of this tilt is quite extreme seasons on the planet Uranus.
The second feature of the planet Uranus is its rings. While they are similar to the rings of Saturn, the rings around the planet Uranus tend to be darker and less extensive than those around Saturn. Their existence was confirmed only in 1977 by a group of scientists led by Gerard P. Kuiper.
The third feature of the planet Uranus is its colorful atmosphere. It is composed primarily of hydrogen and helium with a small amount of methane, which gives it the blue-green color seen in most photographs of Uranus.
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Space attracts not only scientists. This is an eternal topic for drawing. Of course, we cannot see everything with our own eyes. But the photos and videos taken by the astronauts are amazing. And in our instructions we will try to depict space. This lesson is simple, but it will help your child figure out where each planet is located.
You will need:
Main circle
First, draw a large circle on the right side of the paper. If you don't have a compass, you can trace a round object. 
Orbits
The orbits of the planets depart from the center and are at the same distance. 
central part
The circles gradually increase in size. Of course, they won’t fit completely, so draw semicircles. 
The orbits of planets never intersect, otherwise they will collide with each other.
Finishing drawing the orbits
The entire sheet should be covered in semicircles. We know of only nine planets. But what if in distant orbits there are also cosmic bodies that move in the most distant orbits.
Sun
Make the central circle a little smaller and outline it with a thick line so that the Sun stands out against the background of the other orbits.
Mercury, Venus and Earth
Now let's start drawing the planets. They need to be arranged in a certain order. Each planet has its own orbit. Mercury revolves near the Sun itself. Behind it, in the second orbit, is Venus. Earth comes third.
Mars, Saturn and Neptune
Earth's neighbor is Mars. It is slightly smaller than our planet. Leave the fifth orbit empty for now. The next circles are Saturn, Neptune. These celestial bodies are also called giant planets, since they are tens of times larger than the Earth.
Uranus, Jupiter and Pluto
Between Saturn and Neptune there is another large planet - Uranus. Draw it on the side so that the images do not touch.
Jupiter is considered the largest planet in the solar system. That's why we'll depict it on the side, away from other planets. And in the ninth orbit, add the smallest celestial body - Pluto.
Saturn is famous for the rings that have appeared around it. Draw several ovals in the center of the planet. Draw rays of different sizes that extend from the Sun.
The surface of each planet is not uniform. Even our Sun has different shades and black spots. On each planet, draw the surface using circles and semicircles.
Draw fog on the surface of Jupiter. Sandstorms often occur on this planet and it is covered with clouds.
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> Photos of Uranus
Enjoy real photo of the planet Uranus in high resolution, obtained by telescopes and devices from space against the backdrop of the neighboring planets Pluto and Saturn.
Do you think that space can't shock you anymore? Then take a closer look at the quality high resolution photo of Uranus. This planet is surprising in that it is the only one located at an extreme axial tilt. In fact, it lies on its side and rolls around the star. This is a representative of an interesting subspecies - ice giants. Pictures of Uranus will show a soft blue surface where the season stretches for as long as 42 years! There is also a ring system and a lunar family. Don't pass by photos of the planet Uranus from space and learn a lot about the solar system.
High resolution photos of Uranus
Rings of Uranus and two moons
On January 21, 1986, Voyager 2 was located at a distance of 4.1 million km from Uranus and photographed two shepherd satellites associated with the rings. We are talking about 1986U7 and 1986U8, located on either side of the epsilon ring. The frame with a resolution of 36 km was specially processed to improve the visibility of narrow formations. The epsilon ring is surrounded by a dark halo. Inside it are the delta, gamma and eta rings, and then beta and alpha. They have been monitored since 1977, but this is the first direct observation of 9 rings with a width of 100 km. The discovery of two satellites allowed us to better understand the ring structure and fit them into the “shepherd” theory. In diameter they cover 20-30 km. JPL is responsible for the Voyager 2 project.
Crescent planet
On January 25, 1986, Voyager 2 captured this photo of Uranus as it traveled toward Neptune. But even on the illuminated edge, the planet managed to preserve its pale green color. The color is formed due to the presence of methane in the atmospheric layer that absorbs red wavelengths
.Uranus in true and false colors
On January 7, 1986, Voyager 2 captured a photograph of the planet Uranus in true color (left) and false color (right). It was located at a distance of 9.1 million km several days before its closest approach. The frame on the left was specially processed to adjust it to human vision. This is a composite image produced using blue, green and orange filters. There are darker shades visible at the top right that show a daytime streak. Behind it lies the hidden northern hemisphere. The blue-green haze is formed due to the absorption of red color by methane vapor. On the right, false color emphasizes contrast to indicate detail in the polar region. UV, violet and orange filters were used for the image. The dark polar cap, around which lighter stripes are concentrated, catches the eye. Perhaps there is brown smog there. The bright orange line is an artifact of frame enhancement.
Uranus as seen by Voyager 2
Uranus as seen by the Keck Telescope
Hubble captures diversity of colors on Uranus
On August 8, 1998, the Hubble Space Telescope captured this photo of Uranus, where it recorded 4 main rings and 10 satellites. For this purpose, an infrared camera and a multipurpose spectrometer were used. Not long ago, the telescope noticed about 20 clouds. Wide Planetary Chamber 2 was created by scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The Goddard Space Flight Center is responsible for its operation.
Hubble detects auroras on Uranus
This is a composite photo of the surface of the planet Uranus captured by Voyager 2 and the Hubble telescope - for the ring and aurora. In the 1980s we received amazing close-up images of the outer planets from the Voyager 2 mission. Since then, we have been able to look at auroras in alien worlds for the first time. This phenomenon is formed by streams of charged particles (electrons) coming from the solar wind, the planetary ionosphere and lunar volcanoes. They find themselves in powerful magnetic fields and move into the upper atmospheric layer. There they come into contact with oxygen or nitrogen, which leads to light bursts. We already have a lot of information about the auroras on Jupiter and Saturn, but the events on Uranus still remain mysterious. In 2011, the Hubble telescope became the first to obtain images from such a distance. The next attempts were carried out in 2012 and 2014. Scientists have studied interplanetary shake-ups created by two strong bursts of solar wind. It turned out that Hubble was watching the most powerful light. Moreover, for the first time they noticed that the light rotates along with the planet. Long-lost magnetic poles, which have not been seen since 1986, were also noted.