This is the Web Edition of "A Trip Into Space", a Coimbra-based electronic book on space science. Both the texts and the photos are by courtesy of National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Uranus
False Color Image, Bright Cloud From 12.9 Million Km

False-color Voyager 2 image of Uranus showing a bright streak-like cloud at the limb. The picture is composite of images taken through the violet, blue, and orange filters at a distance of 12.9 million km. This view shows the southern hemisphere of Uranus. The doughnut shapes are camera blemishes. Uranus is about 51,000 km in diameter. (Voyager 2, P-29468)

Last Update: 2004-Nov-27