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Explore Uranus in COSMOS

An ice giant represented at measured mean radius and a selected-date Horizons position. The link below opens the explorer, flying the camera to Uranus with its position set by the archived planetary state.

Measured facts

Mean radius
25,362 kmPublished mean radius stored as renderer geometry.
Mean diameter
50,724 km
Reference shape
Oblate reference ellipsoid · flattening 0.0229Equatorial 25,559 km, polar 24,973 km. No terrain displacement or cloud-height model.
Distance from Earth at the recorded epoch
2,905,152,996 km · 2.69 hours light time
Closest camera approach
1.08 mean radii

What opens when you follow this link

COSMOS opens in the same continuous 3D scene and moves the camera to Uranus. Nothing reloads, and the breadcrumb trail stays clickable for the way back outward through the Solar System, the measured stellar catalogue and the Galactic view.

If your browser cannot run WebGL2, this page is still the useful part: it carries the identity, the measured values and the provenance, in text.

Where the full record lives

This page is the share link. The complete data record for Uranus — delivered imagery resolution, observation epoch, source licence, processing chain and every disclosed limitation — is on its reference page, which is linked below.

Datasets behind this page

Content updated 2026-09-26. Every value on this page is computed from the shipped datasets; where a source publishes no value, the page says so instead of estimating one.