Cach kham pha Uranus Tilt 3D Explorer
Open the Uranus Tilt 3D Explorer, read the ~97.8 deg / ~84 yr / ~25,559 km figures, and scrub the orbit year while watching which pole faces the Sun.
- Open https://freetoolonline.com/space-3d/uranus-tilt.html and wait for Uranus, the orange spin axis, and the orbital plane.
- Read the facts panel: axial tilt ~97.8 deg, orbit ~84 yr, radius ~25,559 km.
- Scrub orbit year from 0 toward 21 and 42 to see poles swing relative to the Sun marker.
- Press Play orbit, then Pause orbit, to auto-advance one Uranus year.
- Toggle Compare Earth 23.44 deg to place the ghost Earth obliquity for contrast.
Uranus tilt key figures
| Quantity | Value |
|---|---|
| Axial tilt | ~97.8 deg |
| Orbital period | ~84 yr |
| Radius | ~25,559 km |
| Earth obliquity (compare) | 23.44 deg |
A five-minute classroom demo
Toggle Compare Earth and pause the orbit so a class sees the orange ~97.8 deg axis lying almost in the orbital plane beside Earth's upright 23.44 deg ghost. Scrub the orbit year from there and the two poles trade sunward facing - the single clearest way to show why an ice giant tipped on its side has no Earth-like season pattern.
Sessions this explorer does not fit
The Uranus Tilt 3D Explorer draws a procedural tilt on a circular orbit schematic, not an N-body ephemeris, and it carries no climate or atmosphere model - so it does not serve N-body ephemerides, atmosphere modeling, or ring-particle dynamics. For Earth's own seasons and a solstice scrub at 23.44 deg, open Seasons Earth 3D; for banded gas-giant weather, open Gas Giant Atmosphere 3D. Both are free in the browser, like this page; the difference is only which quantity each one teaches.
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