Uranus:
Hubble Finds Many Bright
Clouds |
8-08-1998
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recent Hubble Space Telescope view reveals Uranus surrounded by its four
major rings and by 10 of its 17 known satellites. This false-color image
was generated by Erich Karkoschka using data taken on August 8, 1998, with
Hubble's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer. |
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Credit:
Kenneth Seidelmann, U.S. Naval Observatory, and
NASA |
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recent Hubble Space Telescope view reveals Uranus surrounded by its four
major rings and by 10 of its 17 known satellites. This false-color image
was generated by Erich Karkoschka using data taken on August 8, 1998, with
Hubble's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer. Hubble recently
found about 20 clouds - nearly as many clouds on Uranus as the previous
total in the history of modern observations. |
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The
Wide Field/Planetary Camera 2 was developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
and managed by the Goddard Spaced Flight Center for NASA's Office of Space
Science. |
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