Uranus

He was discovered in the year 1781 by the GermanEnglish astronomer William Herschel. Uranus is developed similar as the Jupiter, thus predominantly consists of gases, has however a clearly smaller mass. The flyby of the space probe Voyager II in January 1986 revealed the Uranus as a calm planet, which sealed amazingly few details in its, bluish resplendent atmosphere shows.

August Keller

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