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Saturn Moon transit snapped by Hubble - A camera on the Hubble Telescope has snapped a spectacular series of rare images.
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Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA).
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Saturn was roughly 775 million miles (1.25 billion kilometers) from Earth when this picture was taken.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
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(Hmmmm.... Note to self. Be a good boy for the rest of the year and ask Santa for one of these...)
I'd love a 'real world' comparison of what the camera(s) could do. You know, a kind of 'cats whiskers at 2 miles' type thing! (this is the clean version of what I was going to write!)
I'm sure its doable - but I can't quite get my head round the calculation!
OK, coz I was curious I did a quick calculation. Based on the moon Titan (as it is the only one named, and the largest of the lot), Hubble would be capable of resolving an item 1mm across at a distance of 15.5km. Impressive - but even more impressive when you consider that Titan is nowhere near the smallest moon in the pic!
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