Check Out The Most Richly Detailed Image Ever Taken Of Uranus
The New Face of Uranus Two faces of Uranus, as seen from the Keck II telescope in Hawaii. The Keck telescopes' adaptive optics made this image possible. Lawrence Sromovsky, Pat Fry, Heidi Hammel, Imke de Pater/via Berkeley LabThe images are the highest-resolution ever taken in the near infrared range. It looks much more active than when Voyager flew past in 1986. Uranus looks a lot like some of our solar system's other planets in these spectacular new images from the Keck Observatory. Rather than beholding a pale bluish orb (like how Voyager viewed the planet nearly three decades ago), you can see whorls of clouds at high and low altitudes, huge hurricanes and strange features at its south pole. Its swirling cloud layers are evocative of Jupiter, with different colors representing clouds at different altitudes--white is high-altitude, like cumulus clouds here on Earth, while the blue-green swirls represent cirrus-like layers. Winds...