{"id":690,"date":"2013-10-20T17:29:25","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T15:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.planetary-astronomy-and-imaging.com\/?p=690"},"modified":"2018-09-18T21:27:29","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T19:27:29","slug":"uranus-articles-planetary-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetary-astronomy-and-imaging.com\/en\/uranus-articles-planetary-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Some quality Uranus articles by the Planetary Society"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have recently found again some blog articles posted on the web site of the<\/em><\/strong> Planetary society<\/a>. This site welcomes several blogs, among them one held by <\/strong><\/em>Emily Lakdawalla<\/a> who regularily publishes posts of excellent quality about planetary news – her Uranus articles are especially fine and they should be useful for us planetary imagers…\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Uranus is a planet that is becoming a more regular target of observation by skilled amateurs, who are now imaging bands on its surface in red light<\/a>. I always advocate that to be a good observer you have to be become a bit knowledgeable about planets, what we can see and what is happening on them. But where can we find relevant informations about a planet that even scientists are just beginning to discover ? Emily Lakdawalla’s blog and a few other guest blogs offer us such quality information and I recommend you to read them.<\/p>\n

From the disappointment of Voyager 2 to the discovery of an active world<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\nThe Voyager 2 Uranus fly-by happened in 1986. After the spectacular Saturn and before the surprise of the dynamical atmosphere of Neptune three years later, the probe returned images of an almost featurless fuzzy globe<\/a>, the sign of a very weak level of activity.<\/p>\n
We generally blame the very special axis tilt of the planet for that. The polar axis of Uranus is almost parallel to the plane of its\u00a0 $\"uranus_saison\"$