PIA02963: Hubble Finds Many Bright Clouds on Uranus
 Target Name:  Uranus
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Hubble Space Telescope
 Instrument:  WFPC2
 Product Size:  2400 x 2433 pixels (w x h)
 Produced By:  Space Telescope Science Institute
 Producer ID:  STSCI-PRC98-35
 Addition Date:  2000-08-24
 Primary Data Set:  Space Telescope Science Institute
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA02963.tif (3.277 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA02963.jpg (170.8 kB)

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A recent Hubble Space Telescope view reveals Uranus surrounded by its four major rings and by 10 of its 17 known satellites. This false-color image was generated by Erich Karkoschka using data taken on August 8, 1998, with Hubble's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer. Hubble recently found about 20 clouds—nearly as many clouds on Uranus as the previous total in the history of modern observations.

The Wide Field/Planetary Camera 2 was developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and managed by the Goddard Space Flight Center for NASA's Office of Space Science.

This image and other images and data received from the Hubble Space Telescope are posted on the World Wide Web on the Space Telescope Science Institute home page at URL http://oposite.stsci.edu/.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/STScI

Image Addition Date:
2000-08-24