Install this theme
Space Photos This Week: Moon Mash-up, Saturn Aurora, More Hundreds of miles tall, curtains of aurorae undulate above Saturn’s south polar clouds in a composite of near-infrared images released Friday by NASA’s Cassini orbiter. (See pictures of earthly auroras generated by a September solar storm.) In this false-color picture, aurorae are bright green, sunlight reflected off Saturn’s rings and high-altitude haze are blue, and heat emissions from the planet’s interior glow deep red. Get the full story on National Geographic’s Breaking Orbit blog »

Space Photos This Week: Moon Mash-up, Saturn Aurora, More

Hundreds of miles tall, curtains of aurorae undulate above Saturn’s south polar clouds in a composite of near-infrared images released Friday by NASA’s Cassini orbiter. (See pictures of earthly auroras generated by a September solar storm.)

In this false-color picture, aurorae are bright green, sunlight reflected off Saturn’s rings and high-altitude haze are blue, and heat emissions from the planet’s interior glow deep red. Get the full story on National Geographic’s Breaking Orbit blog »

Source: National Geographic
High-res Notes: 1 9/30/10 — 5:08pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZoyDay18e7jP Filed under: #saturn  #aurora  #nasa  #cassini 
 
  1. crayoladeuva reblogged this from ultralaser
  2. ultralaser posted this