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Question: How does the Uranus tilted axis affect its seasons?...

How does the Uranus tilted axis affect its seasons?

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Uranus has four seasons like earth but they are different in many term, for e.g. the length of Uranus’ seasons are different from earth because earth’s orbital period around sun is of 365 days (1 year) but for Uranus its almost equal to 84 earth-years so the length of seasons on Uranus’ increases.

Complete solution:
Uranus’ is a very strange planet in the solar system due a massive collision between Uranus’ and some other object its whole trajectory and axial tilt is distorted and huge. Uranus’ has an axial shift of 98{{98}^{\circ }} but for the earth it's only 23{{23}^{\circ }} which gives us four different seasons and when the northern hemisphere is tilted towards sun it’s summer and for opposite it is winter and both are for approximately 3 months.

But, on Uranus’ due to large axial shift the one hemisphere facing towards the sun and other one is pointed away if we divide 84 year cycle of Uranus’ in four parts each season last almost for 21 years so if one part is having a winter season than it will not see the summer or next season for 21 years.

Additional information:
Titans take 15 days and 22 hours to complete an orbit around Saturn, titan is almost like earth in the solar system with a large variation in atmospheric temperature. Due to very low temperature(-250 degrees fahrenheit) ice can be said as rock and due to some volcanic activity molten lava can be found in some areas.

Note:
For a planet when the north pole of a planet is tilted toward the sun, astronomers call it a Summer, And for the opposite of that called as winter and it's always the same for planets like the opposite hemisphere have different seasons.