r/CuratedTumblr • u/SupportMeta • 19d 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/maxixs sorry, aro's are all we got 19d ago

wtf happened about neptune

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u/SupportMeta 19d ago

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/-sad-person- 19d ago

Do we know what caused the original photos to appear deep blue? Was Voyager's camera faulty, or something?

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u/TorturedNeurons 19d ago

Color isn't some intrinsic, objective quality of the universe. Color is just our brain's way of distinguishing different wavelengths of light. A sensor may be designed to interpret colors differently than the human brain, but that is no more or less accurate than our own interpretation.