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I don??t know in what the neptune_current.jpg texture was based,but it don??t appear to be based on Hubble images,because there was a new dark spot in the northern hemisphere of the Neptune and the spot is NOT in the texture.The discovery was made in 1995:
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archiv ... es/1995/21
Is it possible that ALSO this spot disappared,or we simply don??t have more recent data?
Well,aparently the texture was based on this 2005 Hubble image:
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archiv ... ormat/web/
Is that so?

The spot is not this:
http://img246.imageshack.us/my.php?imag ... uneio5.jpg
Because it is in the BELOW pole of Neptune and the northern hemisphere is ABOVE.Also,this spot is in the same hemisphere of the great dark spot in the old texture,only in a bigger latitude.So it??s NOT a question of perspective.Maybe that "new" dark spot is INVISIBLE to the human eye?

Sorry,I didn??t see the other side,because it was too dark,but it appears that THE SPOT was there,after all:
http://img238.imageshack.us/my.php?imag ... unevh1.jpg
http://img178.imageshack.us/my.php?imag ... potox3.jpg

But I tested Celestia and the sunlight barely reaches this area.Is there anytime in the future when the northern pole of Neptune will be (almost) in full sunlight?