How is Uranus similar to other planets?

Answer 1

The only thing that Uranus and Earth likely have in common is that they orbit the barycenter of the Solar System in roughly-circular elliptical paths. In other respects, they could hardly be more different. Earth has a metallic core, a molten rock mantle, a thin solid crust largely covered with a thin layer of liquid water (frozen at the poles), and a 100-mile-deep atmosphere of mainly nitrogen and oxygen. It is located in a warm region relatively close to the Sun. Uranus has a molten rocky core smaller than the Earth and similar to the Earth's mantle; overlaid by a 12000-mile-deep ice mantle of hot dense ammonia, water, methane and sulfur compounds; and a 3000-mile-deep frigid atmosphere of mainly hydrogen and helium. At no point is there a solid surface. It receives very little solar energy. In case you are thinking that "ice" and "hot" in the same sentence might be a typo, be aware that the hot ammonia/water mantle at a temperature of several thousand degrees is indeed a slushy ice due to the tremendous pressure and density created by the 12-thousand mile depth of the ice mantle.

Answer 2

No. It is very different. Earth is a terrestrial planet, composed of rock and metal with an atmosphere of nitrogen and oxygen. It has an ocean of liquid water and is covered in life.

Uranus is a gas giant planet. It is far larger than Earth and is composed mostly of hydrogen and helium, which also make up most of its atmosphere. There is no life there.

Answer 3

i think its different from the other planets by they all are round and they all have a kind of weather on that planets

answer by:Angel Cooper