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 Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2013 8:00 am Post subject: Wired Space Photo of the Day: Uranus Moons and Rings |
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The rings of Uranus are shown here captured almost exactly edge-on to Earth. This false-colour image was obtained by the NAOS-CONICA infrared camera on ESO's Very Large Telescope at Paranal, Chile. It was taken at 9:00 UT on 16 August 2007, just two hours after Earth had crossed to the lit side of the ring plane. <div class='mf-viral'><table border='0'><tr><td valign='middle'>     </td></tr></table></div><br/><br/> 
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