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Saturn seen from the Hubble space telescope. 2003

author: Nasa/Stsci/Novapix

reference: a-sat02-00027

Image Size 300 DPI: 25 * 20 cm

This is a series of images of Saturn, as seen at many different wavelengths, when the planet's rings were at a maximum tilt of 27 degrees toward Earth. This happens over the course of its 29.5-year orbit. This means that approximately every 30 years, Earth observers can catch their best glimpse of Saturn's South Pole and the southern side of the planet's rings. The telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 used 30 filters to snap these images on March 7, 2003. The top image is in ultraviolet, middle in visible, bottom in infrared.

Keywords for this photo:

2003 - ASTRONOMY - ATMOSPHERE - COMPARISON - GLOBAL VIEW - HST - HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - INFRARED - PLANET - POLE - RING - SATURN - SOUTH POLE - ULTRAVIOLET - UV -