Saturn's Aurora: Ring of Light

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. 24, 26, 28 and 30, 2004. This dissolve sequence shows the aurora appearing as a ring of light circling the planet's polar region. Collisions with atoms and molecules make the gases in the planet's atmosphere glow in visible, ultraviolet, and infrared light.

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[Durgeofcerberus]

HOMIE WE GOT GANGSTAS UNDA MAH COMMET

[Kaberf]

You must be a moron. What are you?

[NarlepoaxIII]

@DeathandGorefuckc0r3

Yup, but if you think that's bad, Pluto is made of gas too.

[DeathandGorefuckc0r3]

So saturn is a bunch of gas trapped in the form of a giant sphere with no solid mass at all? And it passes as a planet but pluto doesnt even though it resembles and actual planet?

[TrutherD1]

Fucking NASA

[kelpokelp]

@zenvent

I could float around taking pictures.....

[zenvent]

@kelpokelp You probly wouldnt see shit "on" saturn considering its a gaseous plannet

[KOKID83]

the all seeing eye.

[ganzta94]

it is extreamly rocky... but the rings are so masive that you cant see the rocks so from very far away you see it as a smooth sharp ring

[FloMoshun]

Wow these planets are so clear and sharp I mean, I never knew the ring of saturn is that clear... I always thought it would look very.. rocky o.o

[kelpokelp]

wow cool, I think it would be amazing to see it if you were on Saturn!