Edge-on View of Saturn's Rings
March 21, 2003
TOP - This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope snapshot of Saturn with its rings barely visible. Normally, astronomers see Saturn with its rings tilted. Earth was almost in the plane of Saturn's rings, thus the rings appear edge-on. BOTTOM - This photograph shows Saturn with its rings slightly tilted. The moon called Dione, on the lower right, is casting a long, thin shadow across the whole ring system due to the setting Sun on the ring plane. The moon on the upper left of Saturn is Tethys.
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Technology Internet, Moons of Saturn, Planetary ring, Saturn, Edge, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Rings of Rhea, Dione, Tethys, Rings of Saturn, Hubble Space Telescope
