News Release Archive: Solar System

2001 (continued)

• 6/7/2001 STScI-2001-15 51. A Change of Seasons on Saturn Looming like a giant flying saucer in our outer solar system, Saturn puts on a show as the planet and its magnificent ring system nod majestically over the course of its 29-year... (More)
• 5/17/2001 STScI-2001-14 52. Astronomers Puzzled over Comet LINEAR's Missing Pieces Astronomers analyzing debris from a comet that broke apart last summer spied pieces as small as smoke-sized particles and as large as football-field-sized fragments. (More)

2000

• 12/14/2000 STScI-2000-38 53. Satellite Footprints Seen in Jupiter Aurora In this Hubble telescope picture, a curtain of glowing gas is wrapped around Jupiter's north pole like a lasso. This curtain of light, called an aurora, is produced when high-energy... (More)
• 9/14/2000 STScI-2000-31 54. Centaur's Bright Surface Spot Could be Crater of Fresh Ice The unexpectedly varied surface of a wayward piece of space debris has given astronomers new insights into the characteristics and behavior of a ghostly... (More)
• 8/7/2000 STScI-2000-27 55. Hubble Discovers Missing Pieces of Comet Linear To the surprise and delight of astronomers, the Hubble telescope discovered a small armada of "mini-comets" left behind from what some scientists had prematurely thought... (More)
• 7/28/2000 STScI-2000-26 56. Hubble Sees Comet Linear Blow its Top Lackluster comet LINEAR (C/1999 S4) unexpectedly threw astronomers a curve. Using the Hubble telescope, researchers were surprised to catch the icy comet in a brief, violent... (More)

1999

• 8/5/1999 STScI-1999-29 57. Hubble Views Ancient Storm in the Atmosphere of Jupiter When 17th-century astronomers first turned their telescopes to Jupiter, they noted a conspicuous reddish spot on the giant planet. (More)
• 6/30/1999 STScI-1999-27 58. A Closer Encounter with Mars Taking advantage of Mars's closest approach to Earth in eight years, astronomers using the Hubble telescope have taken the space-based observatory's sharpest views yet of the Red Planet. (More)
• 5/19/1999 STScI-1999-22 59. Colossal Cyclone Swirls near Martian North Pole Astronomers using the Hubble telescope have discovered an enormous cyclonic storm system raging in the northern polar regions of the planet Mars. (More)
• 4/20/1999 STScI-1999-13 60. Hubble Clicks Images of Io Sweeping across Jupiter While hunting for volcanic plumes on Io, the Hubble telescope captured these images of the volatile moon sweeping across the giant face of Jupiter. (More)