Edge-On View of Saturn's Rings
esahubble_opo9616b April 24th, 1996
Credit: Erich Karkoschka (University of Arizona Lunar & Planetary Lab)and NASA/ESA
This is a Hubble Space Telescope snapshot of Saturn with its rings barely visible. Normally, astronomers see Saturn with its rings tilted. Earth was almost in the plane of Saturn's rings, thus the rings appear edge-on.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9616b/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- opo9616b
- Subject Category
- A.1 A.1.4 A.1.5
- Subject Name
- Enceladus, Janus, Mimas, Pandora, Prometheus, Saturn, Tethys, Titan
- Credits
- Erich Karkoschka (University of Arizona Lunar & Planetary Lab)and NASA/ESA
- Release Date
- 1996-04-24T06:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9616b/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- N/A
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Optical
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- Reference Dimension
- Reference Pixel
- Scale
- Rotation
- Coordinate System Projection:
- Quality
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- opo9616b
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9616b.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:46:12+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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