... or ethane; water would be frozen due to Titan's low surface temperature. Expecting an unusual world, Voyager 1 was programmed to take numerous close up views of Titan as it flew past in November of 1980. Unfortunately, all that was revealed was an impenetrable layer of atmosphere and clouds. Only slight color and brightness variations were observed. Although Titan is classified as ... be about -178°C (-289F). Methane appears to be below its saturation pressure near Titan's surface; rivers and lakes of methane probably don't exist, in spite of the tantalizing analogy to water on Earth. ...

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... Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. The outer planets travel slower around the sun and it spins a lot slower. Earth is a little different from the rest of the planets. This is the only planet that is known to have living life on it. Earth has air that humans can breath. Not many people will know this ... it is the only planet names after a Greek god. Earth is also the only planet that has bodies of water like the ocean and rivers. People have studied the other planets and have not found life on any of them. There are some interesting facts about the solar system.. If the earth ...

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... it is thirty one thousand miles across. Uranus has fifteen moons. Now I"m going to answer my questions. Uranus contains mostly rock and water, with hydrogen and helium, and trace amounts of methane in its dense atmosphere. The blue-green color of this planet comes from the methane gas present in Uranus's cold clear atmosphere. Uranus probably has a small rocky core smaller than Earths with ... a radius no larger than 1240 miles. The cores temperature is about 12,000 degrees f. The body of liquid on Uranus accounts for most of the planets volume. The atmosphere of Uranus, which contains ...

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