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Saturn’s Aurora: Changes During Jan 8, 2004 (Annotated)

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph took a series of snapshots of Saturn's aurora dancing in the sky. The ultraviolet images were taken on Jan. 8, 2004. This dissolve sequence shows the aurora appearing as a ring of light circling the planet's polar ring. Collisions with atoms and molecules make the gases in the planet's atmosphere glow in visible, ultraviolet, and infrared light.
  • Release Date
    February 16, 2005
  • Science Release
    Saturn’s Auroras Defy Scientists’ Expectations
  • Credit
    NASA, ESA, J. Clarke (Boston Univ.) and G. Bacon (STScI)

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Mar 28, 2025
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Claire Andreoli
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, Maryland
claire.andreoli@nasa.gov