Exploration of Uranus
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The exploration of Uranus has, to date, been through telescopes and a lone probe by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft, which made its closest approach to Uranus on January 24, 1986. Voyager 2 discovered 10
A color photograph of Uranus, taken by Voyager 2 in 1986 as it headed towards the planet Neptune
The Uranian moon Miranda, imaged by Voyager 2
A Voyager 2 image of the Uranian dark rings
Uranus
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Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It is a gaseous cyan-coloured ice giant. Most of the planet is made of water, ammonia, and methane in a supercritical phase of matter, which astronomy calls
William Herschel, discoverer of Uranus
Johann Elert Bode, the astronomer who suggested the name Uranus
Uranus seen through an amateur telescope, shortly after lunar occultation, during the November 2022 lunar eclipse
Size comparison of Earth and Uranus