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The Golden Rings of Saturn and some of His Moons... - (natural colors; credits: NASA)
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Caption NASA:"A color portrait of Saturn's sunlight-scattering Rings hosts a group of several moons.
Enceladus (505 Km, or 314 miles across) is visible at top. At bottom, in increasing distance from the Rings, are Pandora (84 Km, or 52 miles across), Janus (181 Km, or 113 miles across) and Mimas (397 Km, or 247 miles across).
This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the Rings from about 10° above the Ring-Plane. Saturn's shadow can be seen on the Rings at upper left.
Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this composite color view.
The images were taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Dec. 22, 2007. The view was acquired at a distance of approx. 1,8 MKM (such as about 1,1 MMs) from Saturn. Image scale is about 110 Km (approx. 68 miles) per pixel".
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