Here are some images of the planets in our solar system that are more recent than may be familiar with! The one above is Saturn! I wanted to do Uranus, because that joke never gets old, but the picture was kind of eh.
Here are some images of the planets in our solar system that are more recent than may be familiar with! The one above is Saturn! I wanted to do Uranus, because that joke never gets old, but the picture was kind of eh.
http://www.phenomenica.com/2009/11/ocean-on-jupiters-moon-europa-may.html
The lack of Pluto weighs upon me my innocence lost.
That's what she said.
That looks a lot like my old desktop background!
It was taken from Cassini!
Or Huygens.
Heee. "Huygens" always makes me chuckle.
Huygens.
what are you talking about? Uranus is beautiful!
"While we have not sent a probe back to Uranus, the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 on board the Hubble Space Telescope has told us much more than Voyager 2 ever could. This picture, taken in 2007, shows fully visible rings around Uranus. This is a rarity, since the rings of the planet are only visible edge-on every 42 years or so."
I find it hard to believe that Uranus has not been probed since 1986.
(This is where Sofia Vergara would throw in a rape joke)
There used to be a shipping company in Singapore that had big oil tankers that were named after the planets. The company was called Titan Ocean and the ships were called Titan Mercury, Titan Mars, ….
Unfortunately the Titan Uranus was sold a few years back and its name was changed.
Also, I used to know an amateur astronomer who lived between Greenwich CT and Stamford CT. He used to say, "On a clear night I can see Uranus from Mianus."
Look at the pixels. It's obviously fauxtography.
"This picture, taken in 2007, shows fully visible rings around Uranus. This is a rarity…"
Not around these parts, it ain't.
Good decision. I find Hubble's wide field camera tends to add a few pounds to the rings around Uranus.
This reminds me of that time I mistakenly took astronomy as an undergrad. The joy of seeing Saturn through the superpowered telescope was not worth the grade I received. I could have waited for the pictures!
BTW, what's that stuff shooting out of Uranus in the photo?