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Early images of Neptune from Voyager 2 were strongly contrast-enhanced to better reveal the clouds, bands, and winds that shape what we have come to think the planet looks like, scientists say.
Voyager 2/ISS images of Uranus and Neptune released shortly after the Voyager 2 flybys in 1986 and 1989, ... It gave us the first detailed images of these far-flung planets.
Uranus and Neptune haven’t had a spacecraft visitor since NASA’s Voyager 2 mission more than 30 years ago. The study authors said that if a dedicated spacecraft were to orbit Uranus, it would ...
These are just two proposals that planetary scientists have come up with for what lies beneath the thick, bluish, hydrogen-and-helium atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune, our solar system's unique ...
For decades, images taken of Neptune have looked like the planet has a deep blue hue, while Uranus seemed more green. However, these two ice giants may actually look more similar to eachother than ...
Astronomers used the data to re-balance the composite color images recorded by Voyager 2 and the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 to reveal the "true color" of Neptune and Uranus.