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Welcome to the Planets This is a collection of many of the best images from NASA's planetary exploration program. The collection has been extracted from the interactive program Welcome to the Planets which was distributed on the Planetary Data System Educational CD-ROM Version 1.5...Accessible introduction with activities for younger children.
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StarChild: The planet Uranus Uranus is one of the smaller gas giants in our solar system, but it is still large enough to hold 64 planets the size of Earth. Uranus tilts over so far on its axis that it rotates on its side....Images of Uranus and its satellites.
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NSSDC Photo Gallery: Uranus NSSDC PhotoGalleryUranus Uranus Satellites Uranus Thumbnail Image Description Caption NASA IDs Image Size Hi-Resolution TIFF? True- and false-color images of Uranus. Caption P-29478 40K Satellites Thumbnail Image Description Caption NASA IDs Image Size Hi-Resolution TIFF? Three-filter color image of Uranus...Planet Uranus by the Royal Observatory Greenwich, England.
http://www.rog.nmm.ac.uk/leaflets/solar_system/section3.12.html
Views of the Solar System, Calvin J. Hamilton.
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Uranus The important thing is not to stop questioning Albert Einstein Table of Contents Uranus Introduction Uranus Rings Uranus Statistics Animations of Uranus Views of Uranus Rings of Uranus Uranus Moon Summary Satellites of Uranus Ariel, Belinda, Caliban, Cordelia, Cressida, Desdemona,...good detail on this planet.
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The Planet Uranus It was found accidentally by William Herschel while he was searching the sky with a telescope in 1781. It had actually been seen many times before but dismissed as a star. Uranus is largely hydrogen and helium, but (like Neptune)...NASA's Windows to the Universe
http://windows.arc.nasa.gov/cgi-...html&fr=f&tour=&sw=false&edu=mid
Statistics, other information, and links, from Nine Planets website.
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Uranus Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun and the third largest (by diameter Uranus is larger in diameter but smaller in mass than Neptune. orbit: 2,870,990,000 km (19.218 AU) from Sun diameter: 51,118 km (equatorial) mass: 8.683e25 kg Hardcopy...Basic introduction.
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/astronomy/Uranus.html
The mysterious planet Uranus. With details of its tilted axis, rings and Voyager 2 visit.
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ORRERY: Uranus tilted extremes Uranus is the seventh planet from the sun. It is the third largest of the gas giants although less than half the diameter of Saturn. Uranus has five main satellites orbiting in the plane of its equator. The largest is...