“Hubble Snaps Rare Moon Parade Across Saturn”

Beautiful Hubble edge-on shot of Saturn showing a multi-moon transit.

Hubble Snaps Rare Moon Parade Across Saturn – Universe Today

Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

In the image, snapped by the Hubble Space Telescope on February 24, the giant orange moon Titan casts a large shadow onto Saturn’s north polar hood. Below Titan, near the ring plane and to the left is the moon Mimas, casting a much smaller shadow onto Saturn’s equatorial cloud tops. Farther to the left, and off Saturn’s disk, are the bright moon Dione and the fainter moon Enceladus.

This edge-on view of Saturn from Earth’s perspective only happens every 15 years.

Nice picture of of an object about 800,000,000 miles from Earth. Light from Saturn takes over an hour to reach Earth.

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