Uranus is an outlier among the eight brothers in the solar system. The other brothers are standing and running forward honestly, but it is trying to lie down and "get out". What is going on?

Uranus is an outlier among the eight brothers in the solar system. The other brothers are standing and running forward honestly, but it is lying down and "getting out". What is going on?

Lying and rolling Uranus

There are eight major planets in the solar system. They all revolve around the sun and run day after day.

Among the eight brothers, Uranus is very different. If others are standing and running, then it is lying down and "getting out", because its axis of rotation is actually parallel to the plane orbit of the solar system.

This means that from the outside, Uranus is not spinning forward, but rolling forward.

So why is Uranus so unique? Scientists speculate that Uranus did not want to lie flat on its own, but because a long time ago, a super large asteroid collided with Uranus and directly knocked it over.

As a big round ball, Uranus does not have the ability to get up on its own, and can only start its own life lying flat.

Of course, some people believe that when Uranus was formed, it was a flat and rotating planetesimal. During the subsequent fusion, the surrounding material and dust were distorted by this rotating planetesimal, gradually forming the current Uranus.

However, the specific reasons still require continued research by scientists.

Lying flat and rolling, Uranus, due to its strange movement, also causes strange phenomena on Uranus that are different from other planets, such as Uranus's seasonal changes and day and night changes.

Because Uranus is lying down and moving, the top of its head is always facing the sun. As a result, the top of Uranus's head is always in the daytime state, and the heat absorbed is surprisingly high.

Relatively speaking, the tail of Uranus is always in a dark night state, and the temperature is naturally very low.

Of course, this is not always the case, because Uranus takes 42 years to move to the other side of its orbit, so after 42 years, the day and night distribution will be reversed.

There is also a rather special place, that is, near the equator, where a very rapid day-night alternation phenomenon occurs, which is also caused by Uranus lying flat.

As for seasonal changes, due to the problem of heat absorption, the seasons of Uranus cannot be distinct.

The strange core of Uranus

Uranus, which is lying flat and rolling, only alternates between day and night every 42 years. This is already very strange, but what is even stranger is the core of Uranus.

The only human being to have detected Uranus at close range is the American probe "Voyager 2" that passed by Uranus.

When passing by Uranus, Voyager 2 took photos of Uranus and conducted a simple investigation.

During the investigation, people found that Uranus's magnetic field is very strange. It deviates from the center of the planet to the poles, reaching about one-third of the way to the planet.

Moreover, Uranus has more than one magnetic field, and its magnetic declination is also very large. As Uranus rotates, its magnetic pole is also constantly flipping and changing.

You must know that the earth's magnetic poles basically remain at the north and south poles, and even if they move, they will not move too far.

Although the earth's magnetic poles also flip, this cycle is generally more than hundreds of thousands of years.

So comparing the two, Uranus's magnetic field is very weird.

Generally speaking, the magnetic field is related to the core of the planet. There is a huge iron-nickel core inside the earth. It is the rotation of the iron-nickel core and the outer core that ensures the stability of the earth's magnetic field .

It is precisely because of the stability of the magnetic field that our earth can ensure that life is not bombarded by the sun's powerful charged particles, because they will be captured by the magnetic field and guided to the two magnetic poles of the earth. Auroras are produced by the battle between these charged particles and the atmosphere.

So why is Uranus’s magnetic field so chaotic? Some scientists believe that this is because the core of Uranus is not stable, and there is no stable movement pattern between its core and external matter, causing Uranus's magnetic poles to be very chaotic.

The result of this is that solar wind will attack the surface of Uranus at any time. If this happens on Earth, life on Earth will suffer a fatal blow.

There is another strange phenomenon, that is, the temperature of Uranus is lower than the temperature of Neptune which is farther from the sun.

Scientists analyzed that this may be because the core temperature of Uranus is about to run out.

下 Diamond Rain Uranus

Uranus has many magical features, in addition to its strange rotation method, weird core, and those extremely gorgeous diamond rain.

Diamonds last forever and sincerity spreads forever. With the vigorous promotion of advertisers, diamonds have become a symbol of love.

Although many people have understood the scam of diamonds, they still cannot stop women from loving diamonds, and diamonds have become one of the most valuable substances on earth.

However, diamonds, which are "hard to find in a pound" on Earth, are like discarded garbage everywhere on Uranus. What's going on?

Based on the conditions of the gaseous planet Uranus, coupled with its huge mass and angular momentum and other conditions, scientists believe that "the hydrogen, helium and methane on Uranus were squeezed under the huge pressure of tens of millions of years. Thousands of miles below the surface of the planet, these squeezed materials eventually become diamonds, falling like rain on the inner core layer. "

This idea was initially considered strange, but in 2017. In an experiment, scientists simulated the state of Uranus in the laboratory and successfully generated nanoscale diamonds, proving the possibility of this theory.

So on Uranus, diamonds may really be like "trash" everywhere.

In addition to the diamond rain, the star ring on Uranus has also attracted the attention of scientists, because the meteorites in the Uranus star ring are very young, and the ring formation age is no more than 100 million years.

Perhaps 100 million years ago, Uranus blocked countless meteorite impacts for the solar system, which resulted in the rings we see now.

In fact, what we have said is all speculation based on limited information.

Because we are too far away from Uranus, it is difficult for us to recognize the true appearance of Uranus. Perhaps only by launching the detection satellite specifically for it can we know the true appearance of Uranus.