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Titan and Enceladus
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Caption NASA originale:"Saturn's Rings cut across an eerie scene that is ruled by Titan's luminous crescent and globe-encircling haze, broken by the small moon Enceladus, whose icy jets are dimly visible at its South Pole. North is up.
The scattered light around planet-sized Titan makes the moon's solid surface visible in silhouette. Enceladus enjoys far clearer skies than its giant sibling moon.
This view shows the unlit side of Saturn's Rings.
The image was taken in visible red light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on June 10, 2006 at a distance of approximately 3,9 MKM (about 2,4 MMs) from Enceladus and 5,3 MKM (3,3 MMs) from Titan. The view was obtained at a Sun-moon-spacecraft, or phase, angle of about 160°, relative to both moons.
Image scale is roughly 23 Km (about 15 miles) per pixel on Enceladus and roughly 32 Km (about 20 miles) on Titan".
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