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): |
August 23, 2006 |
| Filters: |
F550M (550nm), F658N (658nm), and F775W (775nm) |
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| About the Image |
| Image Credit: |
NASA, ESA, L. Sromovsky and P. Fry (University of
Wisconsin-Madison), H. Hammel (Space Science Institute), and K. Rages
(SETI Institute) |
| Release Date: |
September 28, 2006 |
| Colors: |
This image is a composite of many separate exposures made by the ACS instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope. Three filters were 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:
| F550M (550nm) |
blue |
| F658N (658nm) |
green |
| F775W (775nm) |
red |
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| Orientation/Scale: |
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