URANUS SIDEWAYS RING FLIGHT
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EXPEDITION 007 / THE TILTED GIANT
Thread Uranus's
Drift through Uranus's narrow charcoal-dark rings — thin bands floating in turquoise light, the pale giant tipped on its side, Voyager 2 flying formation.
Begin the flight → No download. Just a little curiosity.
YOUR CRUISE ROUTE 0 / 5
All five discoveries are in your journal. Stay a little longer.
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Discover · E Next stop
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GRAVITY 8.87 m/s² URANUS
ENVIRONMENT Vacuum · dark ring dust
RING TEMP about −195°C
RING PLANE +130 m
W A S D to drift · drag to look · Space to rise · C to sink
PROBE / Cruising
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SCIENCE-INSPIRED ARTISTIC RECONSTRUCTION · NOT A SURVEYED RING SECTION
Save photograph Exit photo mode
THE EXPEDITION FIELD GUIDE
There is no surface — only ice.
This is a small, freely explorable stretch of the ring plane, not a whole-system simulation. The five observation points are different views of the same cruise.
Follow the amber guide dots and distance arrow. Drift to a stop and press E or Discover to add it to your journal. Quick travel does not automatically record a discovery.
Moving around
You are a probe cruising the ring plane — there is no ground and no falling. The probe cruises forward on its own; W A S D drift sideways, Space rises, C sinks below the sheet. Drag to look. H hides notes; P opens photo mode; Esc closes it.
Camera motion: On Disable camera drift for a steadier view.
Compare Earth gravity · G Same probe, different pull. Uranus's gravity is 8.87 m/s² — nearly identical to Earth's.
Probe sounds: On A quiet cabin hum, radio hiss, and ice grains ticking off the hull. M toggles.
What you are seeing
Science meets imagination
Uranus rolls around the Sun on its side — thin, charcoal-dark rings standing nearly vertical to its orbit. Only Voyager 2 has visited, in 1986. The band layout, moonlet, and tilt marker are artistic reconstructions, not survey data.
The flight is far gentler than a real ring-plane crossing. Press G to compare Earth gravity — Uranus pulls almost identically. Listen for rare grains ticking off the hull inside the bands.
Click the small Sun or the giant itself in the sky to learn about it — you can then visit it in the Solar System view.
Voyager 2 is a real NASA 3D model — the only probe ever to visit Uranus. The planet uses a real texture; the ring sheet, particle field, and starfield are generated locally.