{"id":1206,"date":"2024-01-05T20:17:40","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T17:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/eng\/?p=1206"},"modified":"2025-11-20T12:40:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T09:40:27","slug":"uranus-and-neptune-are-actually-the-same-blue-color-new-color-images-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/eng\/2024\/01\/05\/uranus-and-neptune-are-actually-the-same-blue-color-new-color-images-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Uranus and Neptune are actually the same blue color, new color images show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While Voyager 2&#8217;s familiar images of Uranus were released in a form closer to &#8220;true&#8221; color, the images of Neptune were actually stretched and enhanced, and therefore artificially made too blue.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the summer of 1989, from the distant reaches of our solar system, where sunlight is little more than a warm glow, NASA&#8217;s Voyager 2 spacecraft radioed back to Earth humanity&#8217;s first ever images of Neptune. The images show that the Sun&#8217;s outermost planet is a stunning dark blue orb. In contrast, Uranus, Neptune&#8217;s planetary neighbor and the first to be discovered by telescope, looked noticeably paler.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Both seemingly twin worlds have a lot in common. They are about the same size, almost the same mass, and both are surrounded by a deep atmosphere made of similar materials. So why were the two balls different shades of blue? This is a question that has puzzled scientists for decades. However, now a fresh analysis of Voyager 2 images shows that both ice giants are actually the same shade of greenish-blue, which is the &#8220;most accurate representation&#8221; of the planets&#8217; colors, a new study shows.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Uranus and Neptune are planets that can be called \u201ctwins\u201d of our solar system. They are almost the same size and mass, have a similar composition and structure, and even rotation speed. This makes one distinctive feature even more remarkable. Previously, it was believed that in the visible wavelength range, Neptune has a rich, deep azure tint, and Uranus has a pale blue hue, so scientists believed that a large amount of fog accumulates in the stagnant atmosphere of Uranus, which makes the planet lighter than Neptune.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Uranus, which is 1.7 billion kilometers closer to the Sun, is the coldest planet in the solar system. The minimum temperature of Uranus is minus 224 \u00b0C. On Neptune &#8211; minus 214 \u00b0C. Uranus and Neptune are structured very similarly. The small rocky core is surrounded by a mantle of water, ammonia and methane ice, then a gaseous atmosphere consisting mainly of hydrogen, helium and methane, and finally an upper atmosphere with clouds.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1007\" src=\"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/uranneptun050124.jpg\" alt=\"\u0423\u0440\u0430\u043d \u0438 \u041d\u0435\u043f\u0442\u0443\u043d\" width=\"666\" height=\"446\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Voyager 2&#8217;s familiar images of Uranus were released in a form closer to &#8220;true&#8221; color, the images of Neptune were actually stretched and enhanced, and therefore artificially made too blue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[543,40],"tags":[527,526],"class_list":{"0":"post-1206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-solar-system","8":"category-kosmos","9":"tag-neptune","10":"tag-uranus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1208,"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions\/1208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}