PLANETARY PROJECT
New Picture Of Uranus
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WASHINGTON, June 2
The National Science Foundation said today that new high-altitude photographs of the planet Uranus, five times sharper than the best yet obtained from conventional ground-based observations, may help to determine whether Earth’s distant cousin has surface features unobscured by clouds. The pictures were taken by a 36-inch telescope hoisted to 80,000 feet by a balloon sent up from Palestine. Texas, in March. Observers using telescopes on the ground had reported seeing faint surface details which suggested that Uranus, the seventh planet in distance from the sun, might not possess a cloudy atmosphere like that of Jupiter and Saturn. Uranus, with a diameter nearly four times that of the earth, is 1610 million miles away—so far that little is known about it. Because of its distance from the sun, 19 times that of Earth, it is supposed to have temperatures of minus 350 degrees in its outer atmosphere.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32313, 3 June 1970, Page 6
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