You need to upgrade your Flash Player The theme of this blog is not only and obviously space, but in particular “terrestrial worlds”, places that tend to have surfaces on which one could walk or at least attach oneself to. These places sometimes also have other earth-like familiar features such as atmospheres, weather, volcanos, geysers and perhaps, we are finding, even exotic oceans, rivers or lakes that are not necessarily made of familiar materials we are used to here at home. The second theme is imagery. Occasionally I do some retouching of images when needed if an image is incomplete or sometimes “dirty” or noisy. I will attempt to correct image shortcomings based upon other images or well-accepted presumed attributes. When this is done, notes will be offered as to what was added, why and sometimes how it was done. This way no one should ever wonder if something they are looking at is real or photoshop.
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Wallpaper: Uranus Portrait

Wallpaper: Uranus

Second only to Mercury, Uranus tends to get the “boring” award from most due to its lack of almost any kind of cloud details. Among its five moons, there also isn’t really that much going on beyond what one might expect from such medium to small sized moons (with the possible exception of Miranda). However, there are a few things about Uranus that strike interest in it like the ring system, its axis is turned to about 98 degrees and more recently Hubble observations suggest that Uranus does have periodic cloud details not seen when Voyager flew past. As fate would have it, Uranus was in an unusually quiet mood in 1986.

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2 Responses to “Wallpaper: Uranus Portrait”

  1. sarah Says:
    November 16th, 2006 at 5:14 pm

    There’s something kinda impressive about how uniform it is…

  2. thomas Says:
    November 16th, 2006 at 5:23 pm

    almost spooky. actually, of the planets with substantial atmospheres almost half almost totally lack any details. Venus, Titan, Uranus and Neptune is sort of in the middle (Neptune does have some details most notably the Great Dark Spot). The rest are Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Some others have scant atmospheres but quite tenious.

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