Quotes by Imke de Pater

“This model can be transferred directly to what we now see in Uranus, although we still need to understand the details of the process.”

“Its funny that this research got started by something we didnt see.”

“We went out in October to image both rings and we simply couldnt see the outer one. We should have easily seen it if it was a normal ring. The interesting part was that the outer ring was the one that was the brighter one in the Hubble images.”

“When dust is smaller than or comparable to the wavelength of light, the reflected color is dominated by particle size effects rather than the intrinsic color of the material.”

“I think there is no chance that the blue ring is caused by geyser activity. We dont know what the composition of the particles is.”