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Two views of the southern hemisphere of Uranus, produced from images obtained by Voyager 2 on Jan. 17, 1986. In colours visible to the unaided human eye, Uranus is a bland, nearly featureless sphere (left). In a colour-enhanced view processed to bring out low-contrast details, Uranus shows the banded cloud structure common to the four giant planets (right). From the polar perspective of Voyager at the time, the bands appear concentric around the planet's rotational axis, which is pointing nearly toward the Sun. Small ring-shaped features in the right image are artifacts arising from dust in the spacecraft's camera.
The mean distance of Uranus from the Sun is nearly 2.9 billion km (1.8 billion miles), which is approximately 19.2 astronomical units (AU).12
This distance is more than 19 times as far from the Sun as Earth is. Due to this vast distance, it takes Uranus slightly more than 84 Earth years to complete a single orbit around the Sun.123