Saturn on November 1999

Esahubble_opo0115f_1024

esahubble_opo0115f June 7th, 2001

Credit: NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team STScI/AURA )

Saturn is about 75, 000 miles (120, 000 km) across, and is flattened at the poles because of its very rapid rotation. A day is only 10 hours long on Saturn. Strong winds account for the horizontal bands in the atmosphere of this giant gas planet. The delicate colour variations in the clouds are due to smog in the upper atmosphere, produced when ultraviolet radiation from the Sun shines on methane gas. Deeper in the atmosphere, the visible clouds and gases merge gradually into hotter and denser gases, with no solid surface for visiting spacecraft to land on.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0115f/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
Saturn
Subject - Solar System
Planet > Type > Gas Giant

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Red Hubble (WFPC2) Optical (R) 675.0 nm
Green Hubble (WFPC2) Optical (V) 555.0 nm
Blue Hubble (WFPC2) Optical (B) 439.0 nm
Spectrum_base
Red
Green
Blue
Esahubble_opo0115f_1280
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ID
opo0115f
Subject Category
A.1.1.2  
Subject Name
Saturn
Credits
NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team STScI/AURA )
Release Date
2001-06-07T15:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0115f/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
N/A
Facility
Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument
WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2
Color Assignment
Red, Green, Blue
Band
Optical, Optical, Optical
Bandpass
R, V, B
Central Wavelength
675, 555, 439
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
Email
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
opo0115f
Metadata Date
2003-12-09T17:17:54+01:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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