A new treatment of images collected by Voyager 2 in the late 1980s using data from the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed the actual colors of the solar system's distant ice giants, Neptune and Uranus.
  • Matriks404@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    It blows my mind that we didn’t know true colors of a planet in our solar system for that long.

    • SheeEttin@programming.devEnglish
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      11 months ago

      the artificially saturated color was known at the time amongst planetary scientists — and the images were released with captions explaining it

      We did know. Somewhere along the way, the context of the pretty picture was lost.