Can we land on Uranus?

Surface. As an ice giant, Uranus doesn't have a true surface. The planet is mostly swirling fluids. While a spacecraft would have nowhere to land on Uranus, it wouldn't be able to fly through its atmosphere unscathed either.
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What happens if we land on Uranus?

If you tried to land a spacecraft on Uranus, it would just sink down through the upper atmosphere of hydrogen and helium, and into the liquid icy center. When we look at Uranus, we see the blue-green color that seems to come from the surface of Uranus. This color is light from the Sun reflected off Uranus' surface.
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Can humans live on Uranus?

There's no process inside Uranus, like volcanism on Earth, that would give life inside the planet a form of energy. Life on Uranus would have to be vastly different from anything we have here on Earth to be able to survive.
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What planets can you land on?

From top: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. The planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, are called terrestrial because they have a compact, rocky surface like Earth's terra firma. The terrestrial planets are the four innermost planets in the solar system.
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What planet can I live on?

Then, just last year, scientists discovered another Earth-like planet orbiting one of our closest neighboring stars, Proxima Centauri. Currently, this planet is the best candidate we have for supporting human life.
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Can we land on Pluto?

To travel the billions of miles between Earth and Pluto, the amount of fuel you would have to bring with you isn't a major problem for New Horizons, but for a manned mission, it would be prohibitive. Chemical fuels are heavy and you eventually hit a limit on how much mass a rocket can lift off the planet.
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What planet is the coldest?

The coldest planet in our solar system on record goes to Uranus which is closer to the Sun and 'only' about 20 times further away from the Sun than the Earth is. The lowest temperature recorded there was minus 224 degrees Celsius.
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How hot does Uranus get?

Uranus' inner heat

Temperatures inside it may reach 9,000 degrees Fahrenheit (4,982 degrees C), according to NASA.
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Can you breathe on Uranus?

Simply put, there is no free oxygen on the planet Uranus.
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Can you walk on Pluto?

If a person wanted to actually walk on the surface of Pluto, the astronaut would probably need to add a significant amount of weight to his gear in order to keep his feet firmly enough on the surface of the planet to actually walk around.
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Can you land Venus?

Yes, several landers from the former Soviet Union have landed on Venus. They were only able to send us information for a short time because the extremely high temperature and pressure on the surface of Venus melted and crushed the landers.
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What if you fell into Saturn?

So, if you tried to walk on this part of Saturn, you would sink through its atmosphere. Saturn's atmosphere is very thick and its pressure increases the deeper you go. After a while, you would stop sinking and unfortunately be crushed by the high pressure deeper in Saturn's atmosphere.
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Which planet is all water?

Evidence points to oceans on other planets and moons, even within our own solar system. But Earth is the only known planet (or moon) to have consistent, stable bodies of liquid water on its surface.
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Does it rain diamonds on Uranus?

Deep within Neptune and Uranus, it rains diamonds—or so astronomers and physicists have suspected for nearly 40 years. The outer planets of our Solar System are hard to study, however.
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Can humans live on Titan?

Robert Zubrin has pointed out that Titan possesses an abundance of all the elements necessary to support life, saying "In certain ways, Titan is the most hospitable extraterrestrial world within our solar system for human colonization." The atmosphere contains plentiful nitrogen and methane.
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What planet is hottest?

It has a strong greenhouse effect, similar to the one we experience on Earth. Because of this, Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system. The surface of Venus is approximately 465°C!
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Is Jupiter colder than Earth?

Earth - 59°F (15°C) Mars - Minus 85°F (-65°C) Jupiter - Minus 166°F (-110°C) Saturn - Minus 220°F (-140°C)
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Why is Jupiter so hot?

Jupiter's rocky core lies well below the "surface" and is very hot (around 36,000 degrees F.) due to gravitational compression (compression is a heating process).
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How many Earth's can fit in the moon?

THE MOON IS SMALLER ACROSS (IN DIAMETER) THAN THE UNITED STATES IS WIDE. If the Earth were hollow, about 50 moons would fit inside. a. THE MOON IS SMALLER THAN THE EARTH: FIFTY MOONS WOULD FILL THE EARTH.
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Why is Neptune so hot?

"The extra heat source on Neptune [and Jupiter and Saturn] is largely due to gravitational contraction," said Joshua Tollefson, also of the University of California, Berkeley.
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Can we land on Saturn?

The planet is mostly swirling gases and liquids deeper down. While a spacecraft would have nowhere to land on Saturn, it wouldn't be able to fly through unscathed either. The extreme pressures and temperatures deep inside the planet would crush, melt, and vaporize any spacecraft trying to fly into the planet.
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Can we land on Mercury?

First, getting there: "You essentially need three rockets to get to Mercury," Hauck said: one to get off Earth, one to get from Earth to Mercury and one to carefully land on the planet (because it lacks an atmosphere that can slow down a spacecraft).
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Can you walk on Jupiter?

Jupiter is made up almost entirely of hydrogen and helium, with some other trace gases. There is no firm surface on Jupiter, so if you tried to stand on the planet, you sink down and be crushed by the intense pressure inside the planet.
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What planet is made of diamonds?

In 2012, Yale University scientists published a study announcing the identification of a planet rich in diamonds. Called 55 Cancri e, the planet is "possibly covered in diamond, rather than water and granite," scientists explained at the time. The exoplanet is twice the size of Earth but has eight times its mass.
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