URANUS

Uranus is the seventh planet away from the Sun. Uranus is largely hydrogen and helium, but (like Neptune) contains higher proportions of heavy elements than Jupiter or Saturn, and is covered with clouds. Our only direct spacecraft observation of Uranus came from Voyager 2 in 1986. The colour of Uranus is due to a gas called methane in the upper atmosphere , which reflects only blue light . Beneath a thick atmosphere is a layer of ice

It is the third largest planet with an equatorial diameter of 51,800 kilometers and is larger in diameter but smaller in mass than Uranus. Uranus is named after the Greek deity of the Heavens who was he son and mate of Gaia, the father of Cronus with Cyclopes and Titans. It spins on its own axis.It takes 84.1 days for Uranus to orbit the Sun once.

particles floating in a mixture of gases,and at the centre lies a large , rocky core. Uranus was the first planet to be discovered using a telescope-it is not visible to naked eye.