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NASA’s brand new image of Saturn will blow your mind – techtoday19
An image of Saturn taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in early July 2020. Image: NASA, / ESA / A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center) / M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley) / OPAL Team By Mark Kaufman2020-07-25 16:22:34 UTC Yes, this is a real imag…
Yes, this is a real image of Saturn.
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a new, exceptionally crisp picture of the ringed gas giant in early July, and the space agency posted the image of the planet on Thursday.
“Hubble’s sharp view resolves the finely etched concentric ring structure,” wrote NASA, noting the rings are composed of chunks of ice ” ranging from tiny grains to giant boulders.”
Hubble orbits about 340 miles above Earth, and the telescope captured this det…
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