Hubble telescope captures images of Jupiter and Uranus looking differen

CNN ^ | 4/1/23

[srmanuel]

Satellite communications and imagery plus microwave ovens for starters

[Adder]

After a meteor shower, Uranus should look different...by Jupiter.

[FLT-bird]

How could you possibly forget racism???

[gundog]

And a mirror....

[Machavelli]

Send Al Gore and John Kerry there immediately!

[ExGeeEye]

It’s a storm.

Jovian weather is improving.

I may look into booking a vacation there sooner than I thought possible.

[Larry Lucido]

Jupiter:

“I was taking a meteor shower. Did I miss anything?”

[Larry Lucido]

[Larry Lucido]

The red spot is getting smaller.

[EvilCapitalist]

Well if Uranus looks different, maybe someone forgot to wash it.

[spokeshave]

Hubble telescope captures images of Jupiter and Uranus looking different

I don't know about Jupiter....But Uranus probably developed a dingle-berry

On second thoughts...Jupiter probably moves too fast for a dingle-berry to form.

[alexander_busek]

Off-topic a bit but has any NASA probe sent dark-side pictures of planets and are they dark?

None of the planets emit significant visible light, so the side facing away from the sun is dark.

Let me expand upon your reply, ETCM:

NO planet or other major celestial body in our Solar System is TIDALLY LOCKED with respect to our Sun.

Hence: No planet or other major celestial body in our Solar System has a permanently dark side.

No real astronomer would ever use the expression "Dark Side." They would, at most, use the expression "Far Side" - though only with respect to our Moon.

It is, of course, to image the (momentarily) night side of a planet or moon. This has been done in the case of, e.g., Jupiter and Pluto.

Result: Mostly black.

Regards,

[Mark17]

How about a glass bellybutton?

[telescope115]

That’s funny😄

[cgbg]

I keep telling scientists that the best way to study “climate change” is to stick their heads in Uranus.

They have been following my advice!

[Brilliant]

I find the stripes and different colors more puzzling than the spot.

[Telepathic Intruder]

The lighter “zones” are high altitude clouds while the darker “belts” are low altitude condensation layers. Or something like that. Jupiter has the most turbulent atmosphere in the solar system.

[muir_redwoods]

There are no dark sides to the planets; none of them are tidally locked. I think Jupiter rotates on its axis once every ten hours or so, so a probe can almost watch it turn in real time.

[Reno89519]

I understand that. My question is more general, when we look on the nightside, may be better wording, the dark side, are there any lights? Aliens?

[Paul R.]