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This wider view of Uranus reveals the planet's faint rings and several of its satellites. The area outside Uranus was enhanced in brightness to the faint rings and moons. The outermost ring is brighter on the lower side, where it is wider. It is made of dust and small pebbles, which create a thin, dark, and almost vertical line across the right side of Uranus (especially visible on the natural-color image).
This undated image of Uranus was taken by NASA.
The thin atmosphere of Uranus is seen in this Voyager 2 image taken in 1986.
Voyager 2's flyby of the outer planets revealed the surprising presence of rings associated not only with Saturn, but with Jupiter, Neptune, and Uranus as well.
The Space Telescope Science Institute released several images, including this one of Uranus, to highlight the six-year launch anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope. The Hubble telescope peered deep into the planet's atmosphere to see clear and hazy layers created by a mixture of gases. Using infrared filters, Hubble captured detailed features of three layers of the planet's atmosphere.
An infrared composite image of the two hemispheres of Uranus obtained with Keck adaptive optics is seen here. The images were obtained on July 11 and 12, 2004. The representative balance of these infrared images which were selected to display the vertical structure of atmospheric features gives a reddish tint to the rings, an artifact of the process.
This view of Uranus was recorded by Voyager 2 on Jan 25, 1986, as the spacecraft left the planet behind and set forth on the cruise to Neptune. Voyager was 1 million kilometers (about 600,000 miles) from Uranus when it acquired this wide-angle view. The thin crescent of Uranus is seen here at an angle of 153 degrees between the spacecraft, the planet and the Sun.
Uranus and its five major moons are depicted in this collage of images acquired by Voyager 2 during its January 1986 flyby of the planet.
This picture is a composite of images obtained through the single orange and two methane filters of Voyager's wide angle camera. The pink area centered on the pole is due to the presence of haze high in the atmosphere that reflects the light before it has traversed a long enough path through the atmosphere to be absorbed by methane gas. The bluest regions at mid-latitude represent the most haze-free regions on Uranus, thus, deeper cloud levels can be detected in these areas.
These two pictures of Uranus, one in true color (l.) and the other in false color, were compiled from images returned Jan. 17, 1986, by the narrow-angle camera of Voyager 2. The spacecraft was 5.7 million miles from the planet, several days from closest approach. The picture at left has been processed to show Uranus as human eyes would see it from the vantage point of the spacecraft.
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Mountaineering officials say 64 climbers, including a Saudi Arabian woman, have successfully scaled Mount Everest from Nepal's side of the mountain.
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