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Saturn's Rings at True Opposition

French, Richard G.; Dones, Luke; Salo, Heikki +2 more

On 2005 January 14, the Saturn system was observed at true opposition with the planetary camera of the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) on the Hubble Space Telescope. This was the culmination of nearly a decade of similar UBVRI observations, yielding a uniform set of over 400 high spatial resolution and photometrically accurate radial profile…