ThingiverseUranus scaled one in 250 million
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Similar to my post of Neptune, this model of Uranus does not represent a topography because it has not a solid surface. Instead of that, the model relief represents the height of the clouds by its albedo, in the time the image was taken. Gas planets have different wind speeds for any latitude, so the storms and clouds are constantly changing its positions. It is based on the high contrast images from the Keck telescope.
The ring system of Uranus is quiet complex. To make it scalable, the rings are reduced to three zones, with the outer one the brightest.
The file's names explained: name_1_x_10_y.stl is 1 : x * 10y. So _1_6_10_7 is 1:600000000 or one in 60 million.
Uranus
Uranus is particular among Solar System planets because its extreme axial tilt, 98° by prograde rotation. It is thought that this tilt is because an early massive collision with a super-Earth sized protoplanet. The moons of the system are coplanar with its rotation, so they probably formed after this event. It ha