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Uranus: The Surface
The gaseous giant Uranus has no surface as we think of it. The planet is actually a fluid body—its constituent elements do not condense in space. Rather than a clean demarcation between the planet’s surface and its surrounding atmosphere, Uranus’s surface is its atmosphere. Astronomers consider Uranus to begin where the atmospheric pressure exceeds one bar. The rest is atmosphere.