Hubble Spots Northern Hemispheric Clouds On Uranus
esahubble_opo9736f November 20th, 1997
Credit: Heidi Hammel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and NASA/ESA
The 'red' image is taken at 6, 190 Angstroms, and is sensitive to absorption by methane molecules in the planet's atmosphere. The banded structure of Uranus is evident, and the small cloud near the northern limb is now visible.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9736f/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
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- ID
- opo9736f
- Subject Category
- A.1 A.1.2.2.1
- Subject Name
- Uranus
- Credits
- Heidi Hammel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and NASA/ESA
- Release Date
- 1997-11-20T06:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9736f/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- N/A
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Red
- Band
- Optical
- Bandpass
- R
- Central Wavelength
- 619
- 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
- opo9736f
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9736f.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:49:14+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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