File:Uranus voyger2 false color.jpg

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English: This image of Uranus was compiled from images returned Jan. 17, 1986, by the narrow-angle camera of Voyager 2. The spacecraft was 9.1 million kilometers (5.7 million miles) from the planet, several days from closest approach. This picture uses false color and extreme contrast enhancement to bring out subtle details in the polar region of Uranus. Images obtained through ultraviolet, violet and orange filters were respectively converted to the same blue, green and red colors used to produce the picture at left. The very slight contrasts visible in true color are greatly exaggerated here. In this false-color picture, Uranus reveals a dark polar hood surrounded by a series of progressively lighter concentric bands. One possible explanation is that a brownish haze or smog, concentrated over the pole, is arranged into bands by zonal motions of the upper atmosphere. The bright orange and yellow strip at the lower edge of the planet's limb is an artifact of the image enhancement. In fact, the limb is dark and uniform in color around the planet. For Uranus as humans might see it in visible light, see File:Uranus.jpg.
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This image or video was catalogued by Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: PIA00032.

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current08:47, 19 November 2015Thumbnail for version as of 08:47, 19 November 2015750 × 750 (407 KB)PlanetUser (talk | contribs)modified from File:PIA00032 Uranus in True and False Color.jpg -- edited using Photoshop
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14:58, 12 April 2009Thumbnail for version as of 14:58, 12 April 2009898 × 909 (385 KB)Nova13 (talk | contribs){{Information |Description=False color image of Uranus by Voyager 2 |Source= |Date= |Author=NASA |Permission= |other_versions= }} Category:Uranus (planet) Category:Voyager 2 Category:Voyager program

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