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Morning Spokes (Natural Colors; credits: Lunar Explorer Italia)
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Caption NASA:"Bright spokes emerge from behind the shadow of the Planet and into sunlight in this view from the Cassini Spacecraft.
Saturn's long shadow covers the left side of the image. This view looks toward the sunlit side of the Rings from about 22° below the Ring-Plane.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini Spacecraft wide-angle camera on Feb. 26, 2009. The view was acquired at a distance of approx. 821.000 Km (about 510.000 miles) from Saturn and at a Sun-Saturn-Spacecraft, or Phase, Angle of 150°.
Image scale is roughly 46 Km (about 29 miles) per pixel".
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