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Transcription: Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun and as you can see in this side-by-side comparison, it's about five times the size of Earth. Like Jupiter and Saturn, it is a gas planet. However, unlike Jupiter and Saturn, a good portion of that gas is frozen and very little of it is helium or hydrogen. Like Jupiter and Saturn, it also has rings but notice the orientation of those rings. It tells us something. Compare this picture to that of Saturn. The rings of Uranus Uranus are rotated 90 degrees compared to those of Saturn. What does that mean? It means that Uranus is tilted compared to Saturn and ...