Uranus auroras glimpsed from Earth!

[Analog]

For the first time, scientists have captured images of auroras above the giant ice planet Uranus, finding further evidence of just how peculiar a world that distant planet is. Detected by means of carefully scheduled observations from the Hubble Space Telescope, the newly witnessed Uranian light show consisted of short-lived, faint, glowing dots – a world of difference from the colorful curtains of light that often ring Earth's poles.
In the new observations, which are the first to glimpse the Uranian aurora with an Earth-based telescope, the researchers detected the luminous spots twice on the dayside of Uranus – the side that's visible from Hubble. Previously, the distant aurora had only been measured using instruments on a passing spacecraft. Unlike auroras on Earth, which can turn the sky greens and purples for hours, the newly detected auroras on Uranus appeared to only last a couple minutes.


http://phys.org/news/2012-04-uranus-auroras-glimpsed-earth.html

 

[Fritzo]

I'll start the fun:

"LET'S SEND A PROBE TO URANUS!!!"

 

[CPA]

All I see is a blue circle.

 

[UnklSnappy]

I think your full of shit. I don't see any auroras on uranus.
Maybe if you bend over a little further.

 

[RavenSEAL]

I'll start the fun:

"LET'S SEND A PROBE TO URANUS!!!"

I like where this is going

 

[Xcobra]

I like where this is going

To Uranus!

 

[RavenSEAL]

To Uranus!

Touche my good sire, touche.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Touche my good sire, touche.

You touche Uranus?

 

[Arcadio]

Uranus really needs a new name....

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Uranus really needs a new name....

Uranus really needs a new name! How about Putin?

 

[blinblue]

Uranus really needs a new name....

Urectum?

 

[Rastus]

Don't forget to wipe out the Klingons.

 

[Fritzo]

Urectum?

2nd best line in Futurama ever.

(The 1st being " And the winner is Number 3, in a quantum finish! Professor: No fair! You changed the outcome by observing it!" )

 

[SillyOReilly]

Why is this planet peculiar? What an idiot that wrote that.

 

[brainhulk]

I thought this was going to be a goatse thread. I am dissapoint

 

[RavenSEAL]

(The 1st being " And the winner is Number 3, in a quantum finish! Professor: No fair! You changed the outcome by observing it!" )

What's the name or # for that episode?

 

[yhelothar]

Uranus really needs a new name....

It wouldn't be so bad if people actually pronounced it correctly ()

yurun-nus

 

[lxskllr]

Video of Uranus auroras...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmrBQf1MD-I

 

[santz]

You touche Uranus?

hahahahahahahahahahahaha crying brilliant

 

[SandEagle]

I'll start the fun:

"LET'S SEND A PROBE TO URANUS!!!"

What if the shuttle land on the cracks of Uranus? Then you're fvcked.

 

[Jeff7]

It wouldn't be so bad if people actually pronounced it correctly ()

yurun-nus

Huh-huh...
He said "urine-us."


(You just can't win with that name.)


Also, this article has the new pictures, not just a stock Voyager image.

 

[yhelothar]

Huh-huh...
He said "urine-us."


(You just can't win with that name.)


Also, this article has the new pictures, not just a stock Voyager image.

It's more like uriness

 

[jupiter57]

Uranus really needs a new name....

It wouldn't be so bad if people actually pronounced it correctly ()

yurun-nus

No, it's actually pronounced "your-anus".
In this PC society, some idiots took offense & people started mispronouncing it
"yorun-nus".

 

[Jeff7]

No, it's actually pronounced "your-anus".
In this PC society, some idiots took offense & people started mispronouncing it
"yorun-nus".

I think the "non-anus" version of it is done because it's closer to the Latin pronunciation.

It's more like uriness

"All hail his mighty urineness, Uranus!"
:sneaky: