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Uranus in false color from Hubble

Uranus in false color from Hubble
Uranus in false color from Hubble We’re used to seeing Uranus in its natural blue colors, but this 2003 image from the Hubble Space Telescope brings out some hidden variations in the ice giant’s atmosphere. The telescope’s Imaging Spectrograph and the Advanced Camera for Surveys created this enhanced-color image to show different altitudes of clouds, finding similar bands to those seen on Jupiter and Saturn. NASA/ESA and Erich Karkoschka, University of Arizona