Going the distance made with ai art
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The original Voyager 1 "Blue Movie" which records its approach during a period of over 60 Jupiter days (January 6 - February 3, 1979)
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Are you a Neptune enjoyer? well I've got some news that will ruin your day! (:
(yes, this news is a couple weeks old now, I had this sitting in my drafts and forgot about it)
We all know Neptune. the beautiful dark blue, windy planet, the farthest planet in our solar system, discovered by math, etc. etc.
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right?
WRONG.
turns out, when voyager 2 imaged Neptune, the photos were processed in false color to better show the clouds in its atmosphere. While astronomers at the time all knew about this color change, throughout the 34 years since then, the sentiment got lost. Neptune was depicted as dark blue in everything from children's books to university books, and everyone took it as fact that Neptune was, in fact, that shade of blue. But it isn't.
In true color, Neptune is a much, much lighter blue, coming in at only a few shades darker than Uranus (cursed, i know).
Above is the false color image compared to the true color image, while below is true color Neptune compared to true color Uranus [IDs in alt]
anyways I hoped you enjoyed this session of cursed space news with jupiter! smash that like button and subscribe for more *awkward thumbs up*
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