Uranus Research Paper

Discovered in 1781 by William Herschel, Uranus has been puzzling scientists with its unique features. For years the only method in which the planet Uranus could be studied was through the telescope. All information gathered on the distant planet could not be confirmed with a close up observation. The launch of NASA’s Voyager 2 in August of 1977, intended for the study of the outer solar system has provided pertinent information on the planet. On January 24, 1986, Voyager came within 100,000 km of the planet. It discovered eleven new moons (Cordelia, Ophelia, Bianca, Cressida, Desdemona, Juliet, Portia, Rosalind, Belinda, Perdita, and Puck). It also was able to study the planet’s atmosphere which is unique due to the axil tilt of 97.8 degrees and studied Uranus’s ring system. Due to the axil tilt Uranus’s poles point directly at or away from the sun which causes the half away for the sun to have long dark winters. It also changes the magnetic fields of the planet which are usually in line with the rotation of the planet. The ring system of Uranus has 2 sets of rings. The inner system includes 9 rings which were discovered in 1977 and an outer system including 2 rings. The outer rings were …show more content…
Uranus was the son and husband of Gaia, Mother Earth. Gaia and Uranus’s children include their six sons, Oceanus, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus and Cronus and six daughters Theia, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe and Tethys. They were known as the Titans. In addition to their sons and daughters Uranus was the father of the Cyclopes. Uranus hid away his children in the pit of Tartarus inside Gaia. When Uranus did this Gaia asked her son Cronos to castrate his father to put an end to his fertility and stop further offspring. From his castration more creatures were born. Uranus separated from Gaia and the two have been separated since then. Uranus is an ancestor to all Greek figures, giving life to the first ever