Hubble Tracks Clouds on Uranus
esahubble_opo9736c November 20th, 1997
Credit: Erich Karkoschka (University of Arizona), and NASA/ESA
At visible and near-infrared light, sunlight is reflected from hazes and clouds in the atmosphere of Uranus. However, at near-infrared light, absorption by gases in the Uranian atmosphere limits the view to different altitudes, causing intense contrasts and colors.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9736c/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
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- ID
- opo9736c
- Subject Category
- A.1
- Subject Name
- Uranus
- Credits
- Erich Karkoschka (University of Arizona), and NASA/ESA
- Release Date
- 1997-11-20T06:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9736c/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- N/A
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFPC2, NICMOS, NICMOS
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- Near-IR, Near-IR, Near-IR
- Central Wavelength
- 1900, 1600, 1100
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- Reference Dimension
- 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
- opo9736c
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9736c.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:49:12+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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