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Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Uranus


From Earth the Uranus in study by a telescope. Within walking distance of the cloud tops and a pressure of 0.4 times that recorded on Earth at sea level the temperature is -214 ° C. The chemical composition of the uppermost layer of the atmosphere is mostly hydrogen gas while the bulk of Uranus is composed of heavy material. Uranus should be composed predominantly water ice, ammonia and methane compounds that because the most abundant elements (hydrogen, oxygen, carbon and nitrogen) are the usual ice in the solar system. Its south pole exposed to the sun for decades seemed stained with a reddish tinge; a series of concentric waves could be clearly seen in the images processed by the computer and handfuls high luminous clouds swept from east to west by winds of up to 500 km / hour.