SERAMBINEWS.COM – Scientists reveal the cause of the blue color on the planets Uranus and Neptune are different.
To note, Uranus has a blue color that tends to be more faded than Neptune.
These two planets are the furthest from the Solar System. Uranus is the 7th planet and Neptune the 8th farthest from the Sun.
With regards to Uranus and Neptune, recently an international team of scientists revealed the reason why the two planets that look like twins have a different blue color.
Quoted from Cnet (1/6/2022), in human vision, Neptune has a color that looks more intense than Uranus. The two planets are nearly identical, in terms of size, mass and the gases in their atmospheres.
However, why do the two planets have a different blue color?
Patrick Irwin, a professor of planetary physics at the University of Oxford and lead author of a study of planetary colors published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets last week.
Irwin was one of the scientists who told Cnet that Uranus smelled like farts and rotten eggs, so he also knows a thing or two about this ice giant.
The research team used data from the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA’s Infrared Telescope Facility and the Gemini North telescope to model the planet’s atmosphere with three aerosol layers at different altitudes.
“The middle layer of fog particles, just above the level of methane condensation, was found to be thicker on Uranus than on Neptune, which affects the colors of the two planets,” the University of Oxford said in a statement Tuesday (31/5/2022).
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