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Saturn, HST image, June 2019
The planet Saturn has a diameter of around 120,000 kilometres, and has a spectacular ring system. It orbits the Sun at a mean distance of around 14 million kilometres. The relative motion of Saturn and Earth around the Sun produces different views of the tilted ring system, with this relatively open view occurring near opposition (the closest approach to Earth). Image obtained by HST's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). , Photo by NASA/ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), and M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley)/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
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