Have you ever wondered what’s going on deep inside Uranus?
how big is it? Is it warm? And how long will it take to reach the bottom?
Well, YouTube’s amazing new stimulus – sorry, simulation – is taking you deep into Uranus from the comfort of your own home.
No probe required.
Yes, that’s enough. Uranus is amazing and not just the butt of jokes.
The video, posted by Stargaze, has been viewed nearly 600,000 times and provides a truly mesmerizing look at the distant planet.
Gravity pulled nearby swirling gas and dust to form this blue-green planet 4.5 billion years ago. This means there is no real surface and you can actually travel deep inside.
So what will it be?
At first, Uranus’s rings (the vertical ones that give it its nickname the eyeball planet) will be too small to be seen. NASA says this is because it is darker than charcoal and much closer to the planet.
Once in the atmosphere, the cloud is engulfed by layers of hydrogen, helium, and frozen methane. Methane gas and crystals give the planet its color, as the sun reflects off the top of the planet’s clouds.
It’s cold inside Uranus. With a temperature of approximately -224°C, it has the coldest atmosphere of all the planets in the solar system.
As you pass through it, you can hear lightning rumbling below. The pressure increases rapidly to about 25 atmospheres. This is 25 times the Earth’s atmospheric pressure at sea level.
As it approaches the mantle, wind speeds reach nearly 600 miles per hour. The fastest wind speed ever recorded on Earth reached 253 miles per hour.
The mantle consists of a hot, dense fluid ocean of icy materials such as water, methane, and ammonia.
But it’s not just any liquid. When it falls into the planet’s middle layer, the individual carbon atoms stick together, causing the diamond to slam into itself.
But while the video says it will take several weeks for the planet to collide with its core, astronomer Jake Foster of the Royal Observatory Greenwich disagrees.
He said it would take just about 40 minutes to fall through the atmosphere, where “a solid, rocky core awaits you and you’ll hit it at about 50,000 miles per hour.” ah.
“Of course, the dense fluid that makes up the planet’s mantle significantly reduces its speed,” he added.
“Despite being discovered more than 200 years ago, much of Uranus remains a mystery to us, in part due to its great distance from Earth.”
“With that in mind, there are still a few things we now know with confidence: Uranus has a mass of just under 87 septillion kilograms, 14.5 times heavier than Earth, and could fit 63 Earths inside. It’s about the same size.
“Its density is only slightly higher than water, making it the second least dense planet in our solar system.”
That’s it! Although Uranus is massive, it is not very dense because it contains a lot of gas.
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