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Saturn’s Aurora: Changes During Jan. 8-30, 2004

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, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 21, 23, 24, 26, 28 and 30, 2004. This dissolve squence 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