Saturn's aurora dancing
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope?s Imaging Spectrograph took a series of snapshots of Saturn's aurora dancing in the sky. The ultraviolet images were taken on Jan. 8, 2004. This dissolve sequence shows the aurora appearing as a ring of light circling the planet's polar ring. Collisions with atoms and molecules make the gases in the planet's atmosphere glow in visible, ultraviolet, and infrared light.
Credit:About the Video
| Id: | heic0504a |
| Release date: | 16 February 2005, 20:00 |
| Related releases: | heic0504 |
| Duration: | 16 s |
| Frame rate: | 30 fps |
About the Object
| Category: | Hubble Images Solar System |
