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This is a False-color Voyager 2 image of Uranus showing
a bright streak-like cloud at the limb. The picture is a composite of images taken through the violet, blue, and orange filters at a distance of 12.9 million km. This view shows the southern hemisphere of Uranus. The doughnut shapes are camera blemishes. Uranus is about 51,000 km in diameter. |
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Two images of Uranus taken by Voyager 2 at a distance
of 9.1 million km. The picture on the left is a composite using images from
the blue, green, and orange, filters, processed to approximate Uranus as
the human eye would see it. The atmosphere is very clear, the blue-green color coming from absorption of red light by methane. The image on the right was produced using ultraviolet, violet, and orange filters to exaggerate the contrast. The dark polar hood is over the south pole of the planet. The doughnut shapes are camera blemishes. Uranus is about 51,000 km in diameter. |
