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Saturday, June 28, 2008

Rings of Saturn - Postcard From a Robot

"Perspective on Saturn"
NASA / JPL (June 27, 2008)

"The ringed planet sits in repose, the center of its own macrocosm of many rings and moons and one artificial satellite named Cassini. Mimas (397 kilometers, or 247 miles across) is visible at upper left. Although unseen in this view, Enceladus (504 kilometers, or 313 miles across) casts its shadow upon the planet. The rings also...."

More discussion of the photo, plus a mutedly spectacular picture of Saturn, taken on the Cassini-Huygens mission.

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