Aimless In Space

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Rachael - Detroit - WSU

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solari-s: Two Hours Before Neptune - Two hours before closest approach to Neptune in 1989, the Voyager 2 robot spacecraft snapped this picture. Clearly visible for the first time were long light-colored cirrus-type clouds floating high in Neptune’s atmosphere. Shadows of these clouds can even be seen on lower cloud decks. Most of Neptune’s atmosphere is made of hydrogen and helium, which is invisible. Neptune’s blue color therefore comes from smaller amounts of atmospheric methane, which preferentially absorbs red light. Neptune has the fastest winds in the Solar System, with gusts reaching 2000 kilometers per hour. Speculation holds that diamonds may be created in the dense hot conditions that exist under the cloud tops of Uranus and Neptune. (via APOD)

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Two Hours Before Neptune - Two hours before closest approach to Neptune in 1989, the Voyager 2 robot spacecraft snapped this picture. Clearly visible for the first time were long light-colored cirrus-type clouds floating high in Neptune’s atmosphere. Shadows of these clouds can even be seen on lower cloud decks. Most of Neptune’s atmosphere is made of hydrogen and helium, which is invisible. Neptune’s blue color therefore comes from smaller amounts of atmospheric methane, which preferentially absorbs red light. Neptune has the fastest winds in the Solar System, with gusts reaching 2000 kilometers per hour. Speculation holds that diamonds may be created in the dense hot conditions that exist under the cloud tops of Uranus and Neptune. (via APOD)

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Neptune’s Rings Two of Neptune’s narrow rings are visible as arches above the crescent planet. The inner ring, LeVerrier, is uniform but the outer ring, Adams, contains three visible arcs. The arcs are designated, from bottom to top, Liberte, Egalite and Fraternite. A smaller arc, Courage, leads the other three but falls outside this field of view. Voyager 2 acquired this image as it encountered Neptune in August of 1989.courtesy NASA/JPL

Neptune’s Rings

Two of Neptune’s narrow rings are visible as arches above the crescent planet. The inner ring, LeVerrier, is uniform but the outer ring, Adams, contains three visible arcs. The arcs are designated, from bottom to top, Liberte, Egalite and Fraternite. A smaller arc, Courage, leads the other three but falls outside this field of view. Voyager 2 acquired this image as it encountered Neptune in August of 1989.courtesy NASA/JPL

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