esahubble_opo0713f March 20th, 2007
Credit: NASA/ESA and E. Karkoschka (University of Arizona)
This movie still captures the moons Mimas, Enceladus, and Dione as they begin their race across Saturn's disk. The still is from a movie created from images taken by NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. It reveals the planet's rings tilted nearly edge-on toward the Sun, an event that occurs once every 15 years. Because of this special alignment, the moons cast shadows on the planet and its rings.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0713f/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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