Why are Uranus and Neptune different colors? The answer is surprisingly mundane - Inverse

A recent study seeks to find out why Neptune and Uranus, both ice giant planets, are different colors. The answer is to do with their atmospheric conditions.

Way back in the late 1980s, the Voyager 2 spacecraft visited Uranus and Neptune. During the flybys, we got to see the first close-up views of those ice giants. Even then, planetary scientists notic… [+5795 chars]

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