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Saturn's rings edge-on

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esahubble_opo9531a August 11th, 1995

Credit: Phil Nicholson (Cornell University) and NASA/ESA

Saturn's magnificent ring system is seen tilted edge-on -- for the second time this year -- in this Hubble Space Telescope picture taken on August 10, 1995, when the planet was 895 million miles (1, 440 million kilometers) away.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9531a/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Type: Observation
Object Name: Dione • Enceladus • Mimas • Saturn • Tethys
Subject - Solar System: Planet > Type > Gas Giant; Planet > Satellite; Planet > Ring

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	Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
	Hubble (WFPC2)	Infrared (I)	-

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ID: opo9531a
Subject Category: A.1.1.2 A.1.4 A.1.5
Subject Name: Dione, Enceladus, Mimas, Saturn, Tethys
Credits: Phil Nicholson (Cornell University) and NASA/ESA

Release Date: 1995-08-11T21:00:00
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Reference Url: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9531a/

Type: Observation
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Facility: Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument: WFPC2
Color Assignment: Grayscale

Band: Infrared
Bandpass: I
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Reference Dimension: 889.0, 459.0

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Creator (Curator): ESA/Hubble
URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/
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Address: Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
City: Garching bei München
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Postal Code: D-85748
Country: Germany
Rights: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Publisher: ESA/Hubble
Publisher ID: esahubble
Resource ID: opo9531a

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9531a.tif
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Metadata Date: 2003-12-09T17:44:22+01:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

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