uranus88In Greek mythology, Uranus ( ˈ j ʊər ə n ə s YOOR-ə-nəs, also j ʊ ˈ r eɪ n ə s yoo-RAY-nəs), [2] sometimes written Ouranos (Ancient Greek: Οὐρανός, lit. 'sky', ), is the personification of the sky and one of the Greek primordialUranus showed a plain face when the Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by in 1986. ©NASAJPL-CALTECH. A Brief Overview of Uranus. Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun.It is