The icy moon Ariel (white) casts a shadow on the cloud tops of Uranus - the moon is named for a mischievous spirit in Shakespeare's The Tempest (Image: NASA/ESA/l Sromovsky/H Hammel/K Rages/U Wisc/Space Science Institute/SETI Institute)
Posted on 09/02/2006 3:19:24 AM PDT by Virginia-American
The icy moon Ariel (white) casts a shadow on the cloud tops of Uranus - the moon is named for a mischievous spirit in Shakespeare's The Tempest (Image: NASA/ESA/l Sromovsky/H Hammel/K Rages/U Wisc/Space Science Institute/SETI Institute)
Truly fabulous!
Images of Uranus .... Wow who would have thunk it.... Millions of dollars on a telescope for this simply amazing.
Amazng. I wonder if NASA can keeep the Hubble Space Telscope operating.
Uranus is blue!
Not typically !!
(( Space ping ))
A piece of Uranus where the Sun don't shine...
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Mods blew this one away a day or two ago. And the fun was just beginning.
":^/
Don't they have computer simulations that would show all of those planetary orbits, along with the moons, the attending illumination from the sun, the moons, and attendant shadows cast on the planet, etc., in full graphic representation??
My God, I would place even money I can pull up Google results that will direct me to FREE SOFTWARE that will allow me to run such a graphic program on my home computer..
How is it the Space Institute doesn't have such software?
How is it they aren't running such software on their targets in the solar system?
I would think that if someone is going to use the (darn) HUBBLE telescope to take shots of Uranus, then the first thing you do is run simulations on your (darn) computer(s) to determine what it is you SHOULD be seeing, and be able to compare it to the photographic results..
Seriously, the more I think about this the more it (ticks) me off..
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That's just what they'd like you to think...
Looks like a blue marble in front of black paper to me - did this photo come from seeBS?
Yeah, I didn't get theat either. I'm sure they have ephemerides for all the planets and their satelites. I rmemeber years ago there was a somwhat similar series of eclipses of Pluto and Cahron, and they had been planned for in advance.
I am really angry with Saturn and Uranus. Neptune and Jupiter are OK though.
I thought the P.C. crowd had the name changed of Uranus ......... to Urectum.
cheese
The rings of Uranus were discovered in 1977, from observations during a stellar occultation event by astronomer teams at the Kuiper Airborne Observatory (KAO) and the Perth Observatory (Australia). Just before and after the planet moved in front of the (occulted) star, the surrounding rings caused the starlight to dim for short intervals of time. Photos obtained from the Voyager-2 spacecraft in 1986 showed a multitude of very tenuous rings. These rings are almost undetectable from the Earth in visible light.
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