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10/4/1996 STScI-1996-30 21. Rare Hubble Portrait of Io and Jupiter This image shows Jupiter's volcanic moon Io passing above the turbulent clouds of the giant planet. The conspicuous black spot on Jupiter is Io's shadow. (More)
4/26/1996 STScI-1996-18 22. Saturn Ring-Plane Crossing, November 1995 This is a rare view of Saturn's rings seen just after the Sun has set below the ring plane. ... (More)
4/24/1996 STScI-1996-16 23. Edge-On View of Saturn's Rings The Hubble telescope has captured snapshots of Saturn with its rings nearly edge-on to our view. (More)

10/10/1995 STScI-1995-36 24. Hubble Finds Ozone on Jupiter's Moon Ganymede Though ozone may be diminishing on Earth, it is being manufactured one-half billion miles away, on Jupiter's largest satellite, Ganymede. (More)
10/10/1995 STScI-1995-37 25. Hubble Discovers Bright New Spot on Io This pair of images of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io, taken with the Hubble telescope, shows the surprising emergence of a 200-mile-wide, yellowish-white feature... (More)
10/10/1995 STScI-1995-35 26. Hubble Photo Gallery of Jupiter's Galilean Satellites This is a Hubble telescope "family portrait" of Jupiter's four largest moons. (More)
8/11/1995 STScI-1995-31 27. Hubble Again Views Saturn's Rings Edge-On Saturn's magnificent ring system is seen tilted edge-on — for the second time in 1995 - in this Hubble telescope picture taken Aug. 10, when the planet was 895 million... (More)
7/28/1995 STScI-1995-29 28. Hubble Discovers New Moons Orbiting Saturn Astronomers have announced the discovery of at least two, and possibly as many as four, new moons orbiting the giant planet Saturn. This discovery was based upon Hubble telescope... (More)
2/23/1995 STScI-1995-12 29. Hubble Finds Oxygen Atmosphere on Jupiter's Moon, Europa Astronomers using the Hubble telescope have identified the presence of an extremely tenuous atmosphere of molecular oxygen around Jupiter's moon, Europa. (More)

11/8/1994 STScI-1994-55 30. UA Scientist & Team Discover Surface Features Cover Titan Scientists for the first time have made images of the surface of Saturn's giant, haze-shrouded moon, Titan. They mapped light and dark features over the surface... (More)
11/2/1994 STScI-1994-50 31. Hubble Observes the Moons and Rings of the Planet Uranus This Hubble telescope snapshot of the planet Uranus reveals the planet's rings, at least five of the inner moons, and bright clouds in the Southern... (More)
5/16/1994 STScI-1994-18 32. Hubble Space Telescope Resolves Volcanoes on Io The giant gaseous planet Jupiter and its moon Io are featured in this Hubble telescope picture. ... (More)
5/16/1994 STScI-1994-17 33. Hubble Portrait of the "Double Planet" Pluto & Charon This is the clearest view yet of the distant planet Pluto and its moon Charon, as revealed by the Hubble telescope. ... (More)

10/2/1992 STScI-1992-24 34. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Explores the Volcanic Moon Io NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is allowing several teams of astronomers to explore Io [EYE-oh] at a level of detail not possible since a pair of Voyager... (More)

10/4/1990 STScI-1990-14 35. First ESA Faint Object Camera Science Images Pluto - the "Double Planet" NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has obtained the clearest pictures ever of our solar system's most distant and enigmatic object:... (More)