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Ghostly Spokes (Natural Colors; credits: Lunar Explorer Italia)
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Caption NASA:"Faint, ghostly Spokes dapple the dark side of Saturn's A-Ring as the Planet's shadow makes a sharp diagonal cut across this image from Cassini.
The image was taken in Visible Light with the Cassini Spacecraft wide-angle camera on April 30, 2008.
This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 26° above the Ring-Plane. The view was obtained at a distance of approx. 316.000 Km (such as about 196.000 miles) from Saturn and at a Sun-Saturn-Spacecraft, or Phase, Angle of 147°. Image scale is roughly 15 Km (about 9 miles) per pixel".
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