Saturn ring-plane crossing

esahubble_opo9525a2 June 5th, 1995

Credit: Amanda S. Bosh (Lowell Observatory), Andrew S. Rivkin (Univ. of Arizona/LPL), the HST High Speed Photometer Instrument Team (R.C. Bless, PI), and NASA/ESA

This picture was taken shortly before the ring plane crossing. The rings do not disappear completely because the edge of the rings reflects sunlight. The dark band across the middle of Saturn is the shadow of the rings cast on the planet (the Sun is almost 3 degrees above the ring plane).

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9525a2/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Type: Observation
Object Name: Dione • Saturn • Tethys
Subject - Solar System: Planet > Satellite; Planet > Ring

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	Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
	Hubble (WFPC2)	Infrared (Methane)	892.0 nm

ID: opo9525a2
Subject Category: A.1.4 A.1.5
Subject Name: Dione, Saturn, Tethys
Credits: Amanda S. Bosh (Lowell Observatory), Andrew S. Rivkin (Univ. of Arizona/LPL), the HST High Speed Photometer Instrument Team (R.C. Bless, PI), and NASA/ESA

Release Date: 1995-06-05T06:00:00
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Reference Url: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9525a2/

Type: Observation
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Distance Notes: N/A

Facility: Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument: WFPC2
Color Assignment: Grayscale

Band: Infrared
Bandpass: Methane
Central Wavelength: 892

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Integration Time: 7
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Reference Dimension: 426.0, 221.0

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Creator (Curator): ESA/Hubble
URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/
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Address: Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
City: Garching bei München
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Postal Code: D-85748
Country: Germany
Rights: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Publisher: ESA/Hubble
Publisher ID: esahubble
Resource ID: opo9525a2

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9525a2.tif
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Metadata Date: 2003-12-09T17:44:15+01:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

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