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Bright Spokes (Natural Colors; credits: Lunar Explorer Italia)
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Caption NASA:"Signaling a return to the bright Spokes first encountered by the Cassini Spacecraft in 2005, three large white Spokes stretch out across the B-Ring. Throughout most of the last year, Cassini captured views of dark Spokes.
This image of bright Spokes was taken Jan. 14, 2009 in Visible Light with the Spacecraft's wide-angle camera.
The small moon Atlas (about 30 Km, or approx. 19 miles across) has been brightened by 30% but still appears as a faint dot between the A and F Rings in the top right quadrant of the image.
This view looks toward the sunlit side of the Rings from about 6° below the Ring-Plane. The view was acquired at a distance of approx. 551.000 Km (about 342.000 miles) from Saturn and at a Sun-Saturn-Spacecraft, or Phase, Angle of 155°. Image scale is roughly 29 Km (such as about 18 miles) per pixel".
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