Tuesday, 6 June 2017

Uranus from Hubble

Whoever said that Uranus was the boring planet?  Here is Erich Karkoschka's time-lapse movie of Uranus over four years between 1994 and 1998 from the Hubble Space Telescope, as the south pole swings out of view and we head towards the 2007 equinox.  You can see considerable activity in the northern hemisphere as it becomes visible later in the sequence, and the dance of the satellites in the plane of the sky due to Uranus' weird axial tilt.  This movie was first published back in 1999
(http://hubblesite.org/video/175/news_release/1999-11).




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