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1995 (continued)
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4/19/1995
STScI-1995-21
102. Hubble Discovers New Dark Spot on Neptune
The distant, blue-green planet Neptune has again surprised astronomers with the emergence of a new great dark spot in the cloudy planet's Northern Hemisphere, discovered... (More)
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3/31/1995
STScI-1995-18
103. Hubble Tracks Jupiter Storms
The Hubble telescope is following dramatic and rapid changes in Jupiter's turbulent atmosphere that will be critical for planning observations for the Galileo space probe when it arrives... (More)
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3/21/1995
STScI-1995-16
104. Hubble Monitors Weather on Neighboring Planets
What's the weather for Mars and Venus? The Hubble telescope has given astronomers a peak. The telescope is serving as an interplanetary weather satellite for studying the climate... (More)
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3/4/1995
STScI-1995-15
105. Comet Fragment Slams into Jupiter
In July 1994, 21 chunks of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, which had broken apart a year earlier, slammed into Jupiter. The Hubble telescope recorded this spectacular event. ... (More)
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1994
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12/21/1994
STScI-1994-53
107. Hubble Observes A New Saturn Storm
This Hubble telescope picture of Saturn captures a rare storm that appears as a white arrowhead-shaped feature near the planet's equator. An upwelling of warmer air, similar... (More)
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7/20/1994
STScI-1994-32
122. Hubble Image of Large Comet Impact on Jupiter
These images of Jupiter, by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, reveal the impact sites of fragments "D" and "G" from Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. The upper right corners... (More)
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7/17/1994
STScI-1994-30
124. Hubble Sees Comet Fireball on Limb of Jupiter
Sequence of images showing evidence for a plume near the terminator of Jupiter at the time of comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9's fragmnet A impact with Jupiter in July 1994. (More)
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7/17/1994
STScI-1994-29
126. Astronomers View Comet Impact with Jupiter
Astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute huddle around monitors to get a glimpse of images from fragment A of comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9's collision with Jupiter... (More)
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5/18/1994
STScI-1994-21
128. Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 "Gang Of Four"
This is a composite HST image taken in visible light showing the temporal evolution of the brightest region of comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9. In this false-color representation, different... (More)
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1991
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5/30/1991
STScI-1991-11
136. Mars, Three-color Composite
Exposures taken through separate red, green, and blue filters and used to create a color image of Mars (lower right). The red filter shows the best surface detail. Because Mars' atmosphere scatters... (More)
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5/17/1991
STScI-1991-09
137. HST's First Observation Of Jupiter
This black and white picture of Jupiter, taken in green light at 1:14 a.m. on the 11th March, 1991 by the Planetary Camera on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope... (More)
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11/20/1990
STScI-1990-11
140. Saturn
This color image of Saturn was taken with the HST's Wide Field and Planetary Camera (WF/PC) in the wide field mode at 8:25 A.M. EDT, August 26, 1990, when the planet was at a distance... (More)
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11/20/1990
STScI-1990-27
141. Saturn's North Polar Hood
This enlargment of the Saturn image reveals unprecedented detail in atmospheric features at the northern polar hood. Saturn's north pole is presently tilted toward Earth by 24 degrees. ... (More)
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10/4/1990
STScI-1990-19
143. Comet Levy
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has observed the inner core surrounding the icy nucleus of Comet Levy more clearly than can be done with ground-based telescopes... (More)