Hubble’s Brand New Image of Saturn | NASA

Hubble’s Brand New Image of Saturn | NASA

Sept. 12, 2019: This new Hubble Space Telescope view of Saturn, taken in late June 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.

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Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Paul R. Morris (USRA): Lead Producer

Music Credits: "Momentum" by Guillaume Bernard [SACEM]; Universal Production Music
Duration: 1 minute, 27 seconds

Release Date: September 12, 2019

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