Picture Perfect: A Youthful Saturn

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This summer, the Hubble Space Telescope took a brilliant new photograph of Saturn and its rings.1 Saturn’s moons Mimas and Enceladus can also be seen in the photo. For a number of years now, the Hubble Space Telescope has been taking yearly photographs of Saturn at about the time that Earth is closest to the planet, about 840 million miles away. This is part of an effort to obtain a sequence of images in order to study the atmosp… More…

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