Hubble: Four Moons Transit Saturn [1080p]

On 24 February 2009, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured a photo sequence of four moons of Saturn passing in front of their parent planet. The moons, from far left to right, are the white icy moons Enceladus and Dione, the large orange moon Titan, and icy Mimas. Due to the angle of the Sun, they are each preceded by their own shadow.

These pictures were taken with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 on 24 February 2009, when Saturn was at a distance of roughly 1.25 billion kilometers from Earth. Hubble can see details as small as 300 kilometers across on Saturn. The dark band running across the face of the planet slightly above the rings is the shadow of the rings cast on the planet.

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

source: http://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/heic0904a/

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Science & Technology

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• Saturn
• NASA
• ESA
• Saturn's rings
• Saturn's moons
• Hubble Space Telescope
• Enceledus
• Dione
• Titan
• Mimas

[maniijeh]

really beautifulo

[nmatech]

Breath-taking. Thanks for posting.

[stephenexmachina]

very cool...titan is huge!