esahubble_opo9618a April 26th, 1996
Credit: Phil Nicholson (Cornell University), Steve Larson (University of Arizona) and NASA/ESA
This is a rare view of Saturn's rings seen just after the Sun has set below the ring plane, taken with the Hubble Space Telescope on Nov. 21, 1995. This perspective is unusual because the Earth is slightly above (2.7 degrees latitude) Saturn's rings and the Sun is below them. Normally we see the rings fully illuminated by the Sun.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9618a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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