Uranus

[Markal]

The ring was postworked in....guess I need to mess around with the ring clip files.
Thanks,
Mark

[inkydigit]

classic Markalien world, nice job, love the lack of atmosphere/dark shadows!

[Zairyn Arsyn]

STINKY!

nice terrain/displacements you have there, well done.
the background looks good!

[Henry Blewer]

Great 1960 scifi look.

[TheBlackHole]

The real Uranus is a featureless blue ball. But this one's nice.

[Markal]

Thanks everyone....
@Blackhole...yes, it seems a blue bland planet but, recent discoveries and better imaging has shown a blue-green (green due to methane) planet with fast moving clouds. The clouds move around the planet at over 500 miles per hour and do change with Uranian seasons....these clouds would of course be blurred in long exposures and long distance low detailed photos. The upgraded Hubble telescope has achieved some excellent photos of Uranus...some even better than the Voyager II mission which was still quite far away from Uranus (over 50,000 miles) and a lot less technically developed (1970's technology).

Uranus the seventh planet is almost twice as far from earth as Saturn the sixth planet....thats far, far away
Uranus rotates retrograde (opposite to Earth's east sunrise/west sunset) and also rotates on its side....thats why I placed the ring on its side.
Uranus is the third largest planet (yet has less mass than Neptune the forth largest planet) in our system.
Uranus has 27 natural satellites and nine known rings....
Thanks
Yeah...I'm a space cadet

[Mor]

Looks very good, I like this a lot!

[choronr]

I like your surfaces; and, the balance of the composition. One of your best Space art images.

[MacGyver]

Thanks everyone....
@Blackhole...yes, it seems a blue bland planet but, recent discoveries and better imaging has shown a blue-green (green due to methane) planet with fast moving clouds. The clouds move around the planet at over 500 miles per hour and do change with Uranian seasons....these clouds would of course be blurred in long exposures and long distance low detailed photos. The upgraded Hubble telescope has achieved some excellent photos of Uranus...some even better than the Voyager II mission which was still quite far away from Uranus (over 50,000 miles) and a lot less technically developed (1970's technology).

Uranus the seventh planet is almost twice as far from earth as Saturn the sixth planet....thats far, far away
Uranus rotates retrograde (opposite to Earth's east sunrise/west sunset) and also rotates on its side....thats why I placed the ring on its side.
Uranus is the third largest planet (yet has less mass than Neptune the forth largest planet) in our system.
Uranus has 27 natural satellites and nine known rings....
Thanks
Yeah...I'm a space cadet

Awesome! I like your image, as well as the explanation about Hubble...

[TheBlackHole]

@Markal
I know that. But still, if you want detailed clouds, can you at least make them sorta like Jupiter's but thinner and on their side? Maybe make it look like Neptune, but no spot and tipped vertically? BTW, I think the camera's on Uranus's moon Miranda because of the extremely rugged terrain.