Neptune and Uranus more boring colors than most people thought

Do you think Neptune is a rich, lapis blue? Fuck you! It's a pale slightly-greenish gray, like Uranus. The BBC, citing research from the University of Oxford, reports that the outer planets are more boring colors than generally understood. It appears even scientists weren't fully clued into how exaggerated the "Blue Neptune" imaging was, though the writing seems a little vague on how that processing has been described over the years. — Read the rest

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