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Keyword: Saturn
![Кольца Сатурна сбоку](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/06/23/0001191205/saturn_24Apr_hst_big.preview.gif)
24.05.1997
Saturn's rings are actually very thin. This picture from the Hubble Space Telescope was taken on August 6, 1995 when the rings lined up sideways as seen from Earth. Saturn's largest moon Titan is seen on the left, and Titan's shadow can be seen on Saturn's cloud tops!
![Равноденствие на Сатурне](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2009/08/25/0001235894/equinoxrings_cassini.preview.jpg)
25.08.2009
What would Saturn's rings look like if the ring plane pointed directly at the Sun? That situation occurred earlier this month when equinox occurred on Saturn. Since the Earth is nearly in the same direction as the Sun from Saturn, the rings appeared to disappear from Earth.
![Кольца Сатурна с торца](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/08/11/0001199077/saturn_24Apr_hst_big.preview.gif)
18.10.1998
Saturn's rings are actually very thin. This picture from the Hubble Space Telescope was taken on August 6, 1995 when the rings lined up sideways as seen from Earth. Saturn's largest moon Titan is seen on the left, and Titan's shadow can be seen on Saturn's cloud tops!
![Сатурн в рентгеновских лучах](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/03/12/0001196951/xraySaturn_cxc_c1.preview.jpg)
12.03.2004
Above, the ringed planet Saturn shines in x-rays. Otherwise beyond the range of human vision, the eerie x-ray view was created by overlaying a computer generated outline of the gas giant's disk and ring system on a false-color picture of smoothed, reconstructed x-ray data from the orbiting Chandra Observatory.
![Тонкие кольца Сатурна в поляризованном свете](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/12/19/0001210481/thinring2_cassini.preview.jpg)
19.12.2005
How thin are the rings of Saturn? Brightness measurements from different angles have shown Saturn's rings to be about one kilometer thick, making them many times thinner, in relative proportion, than a razor blade. This thinness sometimes appears in dramatic fashion during an image taken nearly along the ring plane.
![Сатурн в инфракрасном свете](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/02/22/0001186889/saturn98_nicmos_c1.preview.jpg)
22.02.2003
This delightfully detailed false-color image of Saturn was taken in January 1998 by the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope. The picture is a combination of three images from Hubble's NICMOS instrument and shows the lovely ringed planet in reflected infrared sunlight.
![Естественный цвет колец Сатурна](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/07/23/0001198756/colorrings_cassini.preview.jpg)
23.07.2004
What colors are Saturn's rings? Recent images from the Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn confirm that different rings have slightly different colors. The above image shows their sometimes-subtle differences in brightness and color. The rings reflect sunlight and so, even if they were perfectly reflecting, would appear the color of the Sun.
![Вид в плоскости колец](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/10/21/0001208827/DioneRingside_cassini_c72.preview.jpg)
21.10.2005
Orbiting in the plane of Saturn's rings, Dione and the other icy saturnian moons have a perpetual ringside view of the gorgeous gas giant planet. Of course, while passing through the ring plane the Cassini spacecraft also shares their stunning perspective.
![Сатурн в равноденствие](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2009/09/30/0001236315/saturnequinox_cassini.preview.jpg)
30.09.2009
How would Saturn look if its ring plane pointed right at the Sun? Before last month, nobody knew. Every 15 years, as seen from Earth, Saturn's rings point toward the Earth and appear to disappear.
![Прощай, Юпитер!](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/03/10/0001187457/jupitercrescent_cassini.preview.jpg)
9.03.2003
Next stop: Saturn. The Cassini spacecraft, launched from Earth in 1997, has now swung past Jupiter and should arrive at Saturn in the year 2004. Pictured to the left is a parting shot from Cassini in January that would not have been possible from Earth: Jupiter showing a crescent phase.
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