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.
  • SheeEttin@programming.devEnglish
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    2 年前

    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.