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around the sun. uranus is different from all the other ones in that it doesn t stand on its top, it is on its side. it got knocked over at some point in the past and the solar system and it s basically rolling around the sun. and that means that the atmosphere in the polls and around the equator can be quite different, and there has been a bit of a mystery for a while depending on where uranus is in its cycle as it orbits around the sun, it takes 84 earth years to go all the way around the sun, depending on where it is and the cycle, it is slightly greener or slightly bluer. and the team at oxford university have shown that this comes because of the ice methane in the atmosphere. so these are ice giants, it s absolutely freezing out there, and the methane in the atmosphere freezes and falls as snow. depending on where it is in its cycle to me see these very slightly different colours. it s a

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