Saturn's rings reappear
March 2010: The March skies open with a spectacularly bright Venus hugging the western horizon just after sunset.
By Alister Ling
By Martin Ratcliffe
Published:
January 25, 2010
 Saturn’s rings tilt 3° to our line of sight at this month’s opposition, slightly more than in this Hubble Space Telescope view from February 2009. Notice orange Titan and its black shadow crossing Saturn’s north polar region.
Photo by NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) |
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