Questions tagged [uranus]
Questions regarding Uranus, the 7th planet from Earth's sun.
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Why are heavier hydrocarbons not present in lower part of Uranian atmosphere?
I recently answered this question. While researching for the answer, I found one point quite counter-intuitive. The heavier hydrocarbons resides in stratosphere while methane, the lightest hydrocarbon ...
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What constraints are there on solid material in the ice giants?
Recently there has been experimental verification of superionic water ice (suggested to be called ice XVIII, not sure if this nomenclature is official yet), which turns out to be a solid (or at ...
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First spectroscopic detection of Uranus' rotation?
As an undergraduate exercise quite a while ago, we placed the equator of Jupiter's disk across the slit of a high resolution grating spectrometer and then measured the tilt of the resulting line in ...
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What is Saturn’s apparent magnitude at its brightest when viewed from Uranus?
Considering that the apparent magnitude scale is an inverted scale; what is the lowest apparent magnitude of Saturn that can be seen from Uranus. We are of course talking about when Saturn is viewed ...
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