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Saturn
- Object NameObject NameA name or catalog number that astronomers use to identify an astronomical object.Saturn
- Release DateOctober 10, 1995
- Science ReleaseHubble Provides the First Images of Saturn’s Aurorae
- CreditScience Release Credit: J.T. Trauger (JPL), J.T. Clarke (Univ. of Michigan), the WFPC2 science team, and NASA
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First Image Ever Taken of Saturn's Aurora
(Top) - This is the first image ever taken of bright aurorae at Saturn's northern and southern poles, as seen in far ultraviolet light by the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble resolves a luminous, circular band centered on the north...
Discovery of a Dark Auroral Oval on Saturn
The ultraviolet image was obtained by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope with the European Faint Object Camera (FOC) in June 1992. It represents the sunlight reflected by the planet in the near UV (220 nm). The image reveals a dark oval encircling the north magnetic pole of...
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Mar 28, 2025
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