Here is what the planets really look like (photo: Patrick Irwin) Why did planets "have" different colors earlier "Back in the late 1900s, the images Voyager 2 recorded of Uranus and Neptune were ...

The photos also display Uranus' dim inner and outer rings ... Previously, visible wavelengths seen by Voyager 2 in the 1980s suggested Uranus was a placid, solid blue ball.

On Aug. 25, 1989, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft took the first-ever close-up images of Neptune. This one — among the last full-disk photos taken ... Saturn in 1981 and Uranus in 1985, Voyager's ...

Voyager 1 took this photo of Jupiter and two of its satellites ... This image of the planet Uranus was taken by Voyager 2 in 1986. The blue-green color results from the absorption of red light ...

Voyager 1 was responsible for one of the most iconic space photos in the history of the space program. In 1990, while still ...

An image of Ariel, a moon of Uranus. Voyager 2. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal ... [+] Images Group via Getty Images) Not much is known about Ariel. NASA’s Voyager 2 photographed ...

By making use of the gravity of one planet to sling itself to the next planet, Voyager 2 not only visited its initial targets of Jupiter and Saturn, but also made its way to Uranus and Neptune as ...

Prof Irwin said: “Although the familiar Voyager 2 images of Uranus were published in a form closer to ‘true’ colour, those of Neptune were, in fact, stretched and enhanced, and therefore made ...

Painting of Voyager 2 spacecraft as it looks back upon Neptune and its moon Triton. (Photo by ... Saturn in 1981, Uranus in 1986 and Neptune in 1989. Having left the solar system ...

This one — among the last full-disk photos taken before ... Related: Uranus and Neptune aren't made of what we thought, new study hints Voyager 2 took this shot almost precisely 12 years after ...

Prof Irwin said: “Although the familiar Voyager 2 images of Uranus were published in a form closer to ‘true’ colour, those of Neptune were, in fact, stretched and enhanced, and therefore ...