Edge-On View of Saturn's Rings
esahubble_opo9616c April 24th, 1996
Credit: Erich Karkoschka (University of Arizona Lunar & Planetary Lab)and NASA/ESA
This photograph shows Saturn with its rings slightly tilted. The moon called Dione, on the lower right, is casting a long, thin shadow across the whole ring system due to the setting Sun on the ring plane. The moon on the upper left of Saturn is Tethys.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9616c/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- opo9616c
- Subject Category
- A.1 A.1.4 A.1.5
- Subject Name
- Dione, Saturn, Tethys
- 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/opo9616c/
- 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
- opo9616c
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9616c.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:46:13+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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