Venus cloud tops viewed by Hubble

Esahubble_opo9516g_1024

esahubble_opo9516g March 21st, 1995

Credit: L. Esposito (University of Colorado, Boulder), and NASA/ESA

This is a NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet-light image of theplanet Venus, taken on January 24 1995, when Venus was at a distance of 70.6 million miles (113.6 million kilometres) from Earth. Venus is covered with clouds made of sulfuric acid, rather than thewater-vapor clouds found on Earth. These clouds permanently shroudVenus' volcanic surface, which has been radar mapped by spacecraft and from Earth-based telescope.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9516g/

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
Venus
Subject - Solar System
Planet

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Pseudocolor Hubble (WFPC2) Ultraviolet (U) -
Esahubble_opo9516g_1280
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ID
opo9516g
Subject Category
A.1  
Subject Name
Venus
Credits
L. Esposito (University of Colorado, Boulder), and NASA/ESA
Release Date
1995-03-21T20:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9516g/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
N/A
Facility
Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument
WFPC2
Color Assignment
Pseudocolor
Band
Ultraviolet
Bandpass
U
Central Wavelength
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
Equinox
Reference Value
Reference Dimension
170.0, 248.0
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
opo9516g
Metadata Date
2003-12-09T17:43:57+01:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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