Researched by Adrian, Harun and Johnny

Location

• Uranus is the 7th closest planet to the Sun.

• It is 1,784 million miles away from the Sun.

• Astronomers have very little knowledge because it is 3 planets away from Earth.

Composition

• Uranus is made up of hydrogen and helium.

• Methane gives Uranus the light blue color.

• Something else gives it the faint, light green color.

Unique Facts

• About 63 Earth’s could fit in Uranus.

• Uranus’s temperature is minus 357 degrees Fahrenheit.

• The revolution period is 84 years.

• No one can live on Uranus because it is completely made out of gas that people can’t breathe in.

• The rotation period is 17 hours and 14 minutes.

• Uranus rotates like a bowling ball.

• Uranus has 27 moons and 11 rings.

Previous Missions

• There has actually been only one mission to Uranus.

• The mission was by the Voyager 2.

• So that’s why astronomers only have a little bit of knowledge of Uranus.

Conclusion

• We have to keep exploring Uranus because we only have a little bit of knowledge of Uranus.

• We need to keep exploring Uranus because there is only one mission on it.

• We should still keep exploring Uranus because there is more to learn about it.

Mrs. Stone’s class – Harun, Johnny, Adrian

Unravel Uranus

Robot Exploration

• Our robot is called Uranus’s Unique Unraveler.

• It is made to get gas samples from Uranus to bring to Earth.

• The two simple machines are the wheel and axle, and the screw.

• We designed our robot by sketching it, labeling the parts, and building Uranus’s Unique Unraveler.

Bibliography

L. Vogt, Gregory. Uranus 2000

Jennings, Terry. Exploring Our World Our Universe 1992

Wimmer, Teresa. Uranus, 2008