Does The Planet Uranus Have Lava?

Question

I doubt it does because I'm playing the Blasto Video Game and on the 8th level, it has a background of lava. So does it have lava?

Answer 1

No. Lava is just molten rock and Uranus doesn't have a rocky core. Even if Uranus had magma, it has to be molten on the surface to be lava... it would freeze before reaching the surface.

Answer 2

Sorry (not really) to contradict so many people, but yes, Uranus does have lava, discovered by Voyager 2



Here's the first Google page on a "Uranus lava" search":



Oberon : color photometry from Voyager and its geological implications Lava flows ; Uranus ; Crater ; Craters ; Lava flows ; Satellite ; Satellites ; Uranus ; Lava flows ; Uranus ; Impactite ; Crater ; Craters ; Erosion ; Ice ...

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PSRD: Uranus and Neptune: Late BloomersAug 21, 2001 ... The tardy formation of Uranus and Neptune might have caused the intense ... The Imbrium basin is older than the non-mare lava flows of the ...

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Uranus - Google Books Resultby Seymour Simon - 1990 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 32 pages

The Voyager 2 photograph shows a tall mountain and many craters on its icy surface. The larger craters were once flooded by lava that has now become dark ...

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Re: Does Miranda(Uranus Moon)have lava flows?Re: Does Miranda(Uranus Moon)have lava flows? Date: Mon May 1 20:34:52 2000. Posted By: Max Wahrhaftig, None Area of science: Astronomy ID: 955484775.As ...

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Uranus - Discovery of the planet, Voyager 2 mission to uranusUranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, was probably struck by a large object at some ... such as lava flows and the shifting of regions of lunar crust. ...

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Internet Archive Search: subject:"Uranus"The Ugly Ducklings: The Composition of Uranus and Neptune - Alice Enevoldsen ... An investigation of the orbit of Uranus, with general tables of its motion ...

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WikiAnswers - What special features are about UranusFive of Uranus's moons have icy, cratered surfaces. The craters show that the moons have been hit by rocks from space. Uranus's moons also have lava flows ...

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Uranus (Greek mythology) -- Britannica Online EncyclopediaFrom Gaea's subsequent union with Uranus were born the Titans, ... similar to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, though of icy materials rather than lava. ...

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ASP: The topsy-turveying of planets, stars, and lava lampsMiranda, one of the moons of Uranus, appears to have a mantle made of ice ... Lava lamps work on the same principle. Heat causes blobs to form and float up. ...

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Lava FlowsEarth's Volcanos Video: Lava Flows. ... URANUS ... Lava flows are formed by molten rock that erupts in fountains like these, or pours across the ground from ...



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Implying that a planet can't have lava because it is a gas giant doesn't make logical sense. ALL planetary bodies, even comets, have a rock core, whether or not it is still liquid or has solidified like the moon's core has solidified.

Answer 3

Unlike Jupiter and Saturn, Uranus and Neptune may have a rocky core deep, deep down and there might be lava under there somewhere, under enormous amounts of dense cold gas.

Answer 4

No, Uranus will likely have cold volcanism - ice geysers. Uranus is one of the two ice giants in the solar system. We know that Neptune has ice volcanism, but we have not yet managed to look deep enough below the clouds of Uranus to be sure about such questions. We currently only had one probe buzzing past it in a short time, the furthest orbiter is still Cassini around Saturn.

Answer 5

it's just some game, nothing else. Uranus is a gas planet, it's made out of gas, it's not solid. anyways, it's too cold are far away from the sun to have lava. uranus so reallllllllllyyyy cold.

Answer 6

Nope, Uranus does not have any lava. It would have to be a terrestrial planet to have lava and magma. because lava is liquid rock.

Answer 7

nope i dont think so ..

unless .. it internal heat .. keeps the temp really high to a point of volcanik eruption but other then that i dont think so ..



it is to far away from the sun .. it kind of a cold planet .. so i would say just internal heat

Answer 8

No, it doesn't. It is a gas giant.