Image: Ultraviolet image of auroras at Saturno's poles by Hubble Telescope

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The Hubble Space Telescope's Imaging Spectrograph instrument took this colored ultraviolet image of auroras at both of Saturn's poles in October 1997, when Saturn was over 800 million miles away from Earth.



This image is part of the PBS Nova documentary Magnetic Storm . Click here to watch.



Source: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/magnetic

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Added: 15 years ago.
Topic: General Geology

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