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Hubble’s Brand New Image of Saturn

Carolyn Hinshaw on September 18 2019
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This new Hubble Space Telescope view of Saturn, taken in late June of 2019, reveals the giant planet's iconic rings. Saturn’s amber colors come from summer smog-like hazes, produced in photochemical reactions driven by solar ultraviolet radiation. Below the haze lie clouds of ammonia ice crystals, as well as deeper, unseen lower-level clouds of ammonium hydrosulfide and water. The planet’s banded structure is caused by winds and clouds at different altitudes. Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 observed Saturn on June 20, 2019, as the planet made its closest approach to Earth, at about 845 million miles away. For more information, visit https://go.nasa.gov/30eSrbH Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Paul R. Morris (USRA): Lead Producer Music credits: "Momentum" by Guillaume Bernard [SACEM]; Universal Production Music This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from the Scientific Visualization Studio at: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.go

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