Earth is not the only planet with a tilted axis of rotation.

The angle of inclination of other planets

The axis of Mars is tilted at the same angle, so the change of seasons also occurs on Mars. A terrifying force, the explosion that occurred about 4 billion years ago, when Uranus was very young, just knocked him over to his side. Now the whole planet with its rings and satellites is spinning around the Sun in a prone position.

Uranus Features

Uranus is generally a very strange planet. It rotates around its axis backwards, not like all other planets - from west to east, but from east to west. Scientists call this rotation retrograde. 2.9 billion kilometers away from the Sun. Uranus is a very cold planet. The average temperature of its atmosphere is minus 212 degrees Celsius.

The period of the revolution of Uranus around the Sun - the year of Uranus - lasts 84 Earth years. While Uranus makes a revolution around the Sun, he first exposes the star to one pole, and then the second. That is, while on one half of the planet is a polar day, on the opposite - an impenetrable polar night. Their duration is 21 earth years. The same goes for spring and autumn.

The Voyager 2 spaceship, flying past Uranus in 1986, discovered another amazing feature of Uranus. The temperature of the atmosphere in the region of the polar night turned out to be 4-6 degrees higher than in the region of the polar day. Scientists believe that this is due, as they say, to the “seasonal lag” of temperatures.

Cooled items lose heat more slowly than hot ones. Since Uranus is a cold planet, it cools down slowly. Therefore, the pole, which spent 21 years in darkness, and now is in pitch darkness, will very slowly and reluctantly give up the heat accumulated during its stay in the Sun.