Technical facts about this news release:
| About the Object |
| Object Name: |
Uranus |
| Object Description: |
Planet |
| Distance: |
The semi-major axis of Uranus's orbit about the sun is 19.18
Astronomical Units (A.U.) or roughly 2.9 billion km. |
| Dimensions: |
Uranus (without rings) has a diameter of roughly 32,000 miles (51,000 km) at the equator. |
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| About the Data |
| Data Description: |
This image was created from HST data from the following proposal 10805: PI: L. Sromovsky (University of Wisconsin, Madison), H. Hammel (Space Science Institute), and K. Rages (SETI Institute). |
| Instrument: |
ACS/WFC |
| Exposure Date(s): |
July 26, 2006 |
| Filters: |
FR782N at 750nm, 770 nm, and 790 nm |
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| About the Image |
| Image Credit: |
NASA, ESA, and L. Sromovsky (University of Wisconsin, Madison) |
| Release Date: |
August 31, 2006 |
| Colors |
This image is a composite of many separate exposures made by the ACS instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope. A single ramp filter was used to sample several wavelength ranges. The color results from assigning different hues (colors) to each monochromatic image. In this case, the assigned colors are:
FR782N @750 nm blue
FR782N @770 nm green
FR782N @790 nm red |
| Orientation/Scale: |
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