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Mike Wehner
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Aside from Earth, Saturn is probably the most instantly recognizable of the planets in our solar system. It's the only planet with bold, easily visible rings — other planets, such as Uranus, have rings as well, but they're not nearly as opaque — and you'd never mistake it for another world in our little stellar neighborhood. However, that doesn't mean it never changes, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope recently spotted some very interesting color shifts happening on the planet.
In a new post on NASA's website, the space agency highlights a paper published in Planetary Science Journal where scientists reveal the subtle color changes happening on Saturn. The planet's rings don't change much from season to season, but the colors of the planet itself definitely do. A single year on Saturn is equivalent to 29 Earth years, so we see seasonal changes happen very slowly, but it's clear that something is happening beneath the clouds.
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Saturn changed colors, and Hubble was watching originally appeared on BGR.com on Sat, 20 Mar 2021 at 14:07:57 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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