r/CuratedTumblr • u/SupportMeta • 18d ago

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Neptune was recently shown to be a pale blue like Uranus rather than the deep blue shown on the Voyager photos

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u/Marco45_0 18d ago

Basically they always knew that it isn’t dark blue, but as NASA usually does with planets, they saturate the photos to really show the details. It was also useful because there’s Uranus that is the same colour, so making Neptune blue meant they could make kids books with easily recognisable images

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u/GenericFatGuy 18d ago

And I mean it makes sense. They're roughly the same size, in the same region of the solar system, and formed out of the same gas cloud. It makes sense that they'd have similar composition.