Uranus
Congratulations! Did you realize it was Uranus? The first planet found with the aid of a telescope, Uranus was discovered in 1781 by astronomer William Herschel, although he originally thought it was either a comet or a star. Uranus is made of water, methane, and...
Neptune
Welcome to our 8th planet, Neptune. You are now More than 30 times as far from the Sun as Earth or a distance of about 2.8 billion miles (4.5 billion kilometers). Neptune takes about 16 hours to rotate once (a Neptunian day), and about 165 Earth years to orbit the...Help make Crane Point everything that it can be
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