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The Northern Regions of Saturn
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Caption NASA:"Magnificent blue and gold Saturn floats obliquely as one of its gravity-bound companions, Dione, hangs in the distance. The darkened Rings seem to nearly touch their shadowy reverse images on the planet below.
This view looks toward the unlit side of the Rings from about 9° above the Ring-Plane. The Rings glow feebly in the scattered light that filters through them.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Feb. 4, 2007, at a distance of approx. 1,2 MKM (about 800.000 miles) from Saturn.
Image scale is roughly 75 Km (about 47 miles) per pixel".
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