Saturn on October 1998
esahubble_opo0115e 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/opo0115e/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- opo0115e
- 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/opo0115e/
- 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
- 3000.0, 1500.0
- 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
- opo0115e
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo0115e.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:17:50+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
