They found hydrogen sulfide, the odiferous gas that most people avoid, in Uranus's cloud tops. The long-sought evidence is published in the April 23rd issue of the journal Nature Astronomy.

Voyager 2 came within about 50,000 miles of Uranus' cloud tops, providing the first-ever close-up views of the planet, its rings and its moons. A NASA image of Uranus taken by Voyager 2 in 1986.

Beneath the blue. Only one spacecraft, Voyager 2, has ever flown by Uranus at close range. The craft came as near as 50,600 miles to Uranus' cloud tops in 1986, giving scientists their first ...

What methods can be used to identify subsurface oceans on the five largest moons of Uranus: Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and ...

Uranus was one of the earliest gods in Greek mythology. ... The Voyager 2 spacecraft made it within 50,600 miles of the planet's cloud tops and gathered many images and data on its rings, moons, ...

Uranus is a lonely world. Nearly four decades ago, the ice giant received one fleeting visitor when the Voyager 2 spacecraft flew within 81,800 kilometers of its cloud tops.

The methane gas and crystals gives the planet its colour, as the Sun reflects from the planet’s cloud tops. It’s cold inside Uranus. The temperature is around -224C, ...

A trip to Uranus or Neptune emerged as a top contender. "The "dearth of knowledge on the ice giants" was identified as a problem of highest priority for resolving in the coming decade," Mandt writes.

If someone were to fall into Uranus, they would see its ring system, the turquoise hue of its swirling atmospheric bands, and progressively darkening hydrogen sulfide ice clouds. The atmosphere is ...

Scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope set out to study how Uranus’s magnetic field interacts with its largest ...

This photo was taken on 12 November 2022. [Uranus: ... The orange moon Io photobombs this view of Jupiter’s multicoloured cloud tops, casting a shadow toward the planet’s western limb.

In 2014, multiple storms with clouds of methane ice crystals were circling the mid-northern latitudes. Eight years later, a haze appeared over the north pole that was similar to the smog of ...