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This texture is a more or less realistic representation of planet Uranus using data from the Keck observatory. I made this by mixing John van Vliet's fictional Uranus map:
www.celestiamotherlode.net/cat…
and Snowfall's Keck map made of IR images: snowfall-the-cat.deviantart.co…
In this texture the south pole is up (since this is confusing considering Uranus' odd rotation, I mean the pole that was facing the sun during the Voyager 2 flyby). Uranus' atmosphere is now much more active than in 1986 when a global smog layer hid all the structures. I let the south pole untouched, so the Voyager 2 flyby still looks roughly this way.

This is the best we got from poor Uranus, even this 2k texture still looks blurry. We need to go back to this planet, but sadly, no spacecraft mission is planned right now. Even it is good to see the outer solar system gets more attention recently, exploring the worlds we know the least about should be a higher priority.

For Celestia users: Here the ssc-syntax I am using for Uranus:

    SpecularPower    2
    SpecularColor    [ 0.2 0.22 0.22 ]

    Atmosphere
    {
      Height        130
      Mie     0.0004
        MieAsymmetry   -0.25
        Rayleigh    [ 0.00002 0.00006 0.00010 ]
        Absorption    [ 0.00008 0.00002 0.00003 ]
        MieScaleHeight    80
    }

Description
This texture is a more or less realistic representation of planet Uranus using data from the Keck observatory. I made this by mixing John van Vliet's fictional Uranus map:
www.celestiamotherlode.net/cat…
and Snowfall's Keck map made of IR images: snowfall-the-cat.deviantart.co…
In this texture the south pole is up (since this is confusing considering Uranus' odd rotation, I mean the pole that was facing the sun during the Voyager 2 flyby). Uranus' atmosphere is now much more active than in 1986 when a global smog layer hid all the structures. I let the south pole untouched, so the Voyager 2 flyby still looks roughly this way.

This is the best we got from poor Uranus, even this 2k texture still looks blurry. We need to go back to this planet, but sadly, no spacecraft mission is planned right now. Even it is good to see the outer solar system gets more attention recently, exploring the worlds we know the least about should be a higher priority.

For Celestia users: Here the ssc-syntax I am using for Uranus:

    SpecularPower    2
    SpecularColor    [ 0.2 0.22 0.22 ]

    Atmosphere
    {
      Height        130
      Mie     0.0004
        MieAsymmetry   -0.25
        Rayleigh    [ 0.00002 0.00006 0.00010 ]
        Absorption    [ 0.00008 0.00002 0.00003 ]
        MieScaleHeight    80
    }