Hubble Finds Ozone Spectral "Fingerprint" on Ganymede

Esahubble_opo9536a_1024

esahubble_opo9536a October 10th, 1995

Credit: STScI, NASA/ESA

NASA's Hubbe Space Telescope found ozone's spectral "fingerprint" during observations of Ganymede made by Keith Noll and colleagues at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. These Hubble Faint Object Spectrograph results were presented at the American Astronomical Society's 27th Annual Meeting of the Division of Planetary Sciences in Kona, Hawaii.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9536a/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, None, Germany

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Image Details Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
Ganymede
Subject - Solar System
Planet > Feature > Atmosphere
Planet > Satellite

Color Mapping Details Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Hubble (WFPC2) Infrared -
Hubble (WFPC2) Ultraviolet -
Esahubble_opo9536a_1280
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ID
opo9536a
Subject Category
A.1.2.2   A.1.4  
Subject Name
Ganymede
Credits
STScI, NASA/ESA
Release Date
1995-10-10T05:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9536a/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
N/A
Facility
Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument
WFPC2, WFPC2
Color Assignment
Band
Infrared, Ultraviolet
Bandpass
Central Wavelength
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
Equinox
Reference Value
Reference Dimension
500.0, 500.0
Reference Pixel
Scale
Rotation
Coordinate System Projection:
Quality
FITS Header
Notes
Creator (Curator)
ESA/Hubble
URL
http://www.spacetelescope.org/
Name
Email
Telephone
Address
Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
City
Garching bei München
State/Province
None
Postal Code
D-85748
Country
Germany
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Publisher
ESA/Hubble
Publisher ID
esahubble
Resource ID
opo9536a
Resource URL
http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9536a.tif
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Metadata Date
2003-12-09T17:44:27+01:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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