Hubble Again Views Saturn’s Rings Edge-On

Saturn's Rings Edge-on

Saturn's magnificent ring system is seen tilted edge-on - for the second time this year - in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope picture taken on August 10, 1995, when the planet was 895 million miles (1,440 million kilometers) away. Hubble snapped the image as Earth sped back...

Reappearance of Saturn's Satellite Mimas

On 10 August 1995 HST observed the second passage of the Earth through Saturn's ring plane in the 1995/96 series of triple crossings. This pair of 100 sec exposures was taken with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera (WFPC2) in planetary (high resolution) mode 2.5 hours prior to...

Motion of Saturn's Satellites

This sequence of 100 sec exposures taken with HST's Wide Field and Planetary Camera (WFPC2) in planetary mode on 10 August 1995 shows three of the smaller satellites of Saturn, as well as the newly discovered object 1995S5. Epimetheus is the smaller co-orbital satellite and...

Brightness Variations in Saturn's Satellite 1995S5

This sequence of 100 sec exposures taken with HST's Wide Field and Planetary Camera (WFPC2) in planetary mode on 10 August 1995 shows the newly discovered object 1995S5 (red arrows) moving in its orbit around the planet. As it moves further from Saturn, its brightness decreases...

Saturn's E Ring in Ultraviolet Light

Visible from Earth only at times of ring plane crossing, Saturn's tenuous E Ring was discovered during the 1966 crossings and imaged again in 1980. From these observations, its color is known to be distinctively blue. The E Ring was captured in ultraviolet light for the first...