• Matriks404@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

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

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      1 year ago

      the fact we know there are planets at all blows my mind a lil bit

      like we can aim a tube with a precision crafted piece of glass to see big balls in the sky??

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      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.