Keith Haring painting a mural at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, 1984.

You may be thinking of this picture:

taken in the visible spectrum by Voyager 2 as it passed the planet in 1986. And I would agree with you: looking at this picture, there are no visible features — it appears to be a large pale blue ball.

Now, why does it look so boring?

First, this is a picture of what is perhaps the coldest stable atmosphere in the solar system, with temperatures reaching 42 K. That doesn’t give a lot of energy for things like storms. Now, that being said, visible light is a very small portion of what we can use to look at the planet; here is a false color, near infrared image, this time including the surface, moons, as well as another feature of ice giants rings!

This was taken in 1998 by the Hubble Space Telescope using the NICMOS camera

‼️This post is a part of my series "Frequent questions". Here's a link: