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Neptune isn't as blue as you think, and these new images of the planet prove it (www.livescience.com)
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[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It blows my mind that we didn't know true colors of a planet in our solar system for that long.

[–] SheeEttin@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

the artificially saturated color was known at the time amongst planetary scientists — and the images were released with captions explaining it

We did know. Somewhere along the way, the context of the pretty picture was lost.