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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first near-infrared observation of Saturn, highlighting details in the planet’s atmosphere and rings.
Saturn – sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter. It is a gas giant with an average radius about nine times that of Earth . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Although only one-eighth the average density of Earth, with its larger volume Saturn is just over 95 times more massive.
Early morning view on November 9, 1967 of Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, showing Apollo 4 Saturn V (Spacecraft 017/Saturn 501) prior to launch later that day. This was the first launch of the Saturn V. Date: Taken on 9 November 1967: Source: High-resolution image from Apollo Image Archive: Author: NASA: Other versions
Article on Saturn's Northern Electrostatic Disturbance Archived 2012-09-10 at the Wayback Machine on Sky and Telescope; 1990/1 Hubble Space Telescope image; 2006: observed with a 12" telescope by amateurs near Paris. Volunteers Help NASA Track Return of the Dragon Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine; Kidger, Mark (1992).
The composite photo, released Thursday by NASA, was taken by Hubble on October 22 as Saturn was about 850 million miles (1.37 billion kilometers) away, according to the space agency. The space ...
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It is estimated that the A Ring contains 7,000–8,000 propellers larger than 0.8 km in size and millions larger than 0.25 km. [4] In April 2014, NASA scientists reported the possible consolidation of a new moon within the A Ring, implying that Saturn's present moons may have formed in a similar process in the past when Saturn's ring system was ...