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Just like the Solar System!
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Caption NASA:"Saturn's icy satellites wheel about the colorful Giant Planet, while the Rings shine dimly in scattered sunlight. The Ringed Planet is, in many ways, a laboratory for investigating the history of our Solar System and how planets form around other stars. There are 4 moons visible in this view. Tethys (1071 Km, or 665 miles across), largest in the scene, is on the far side of the Ring-Plane. Mimas (397 Km, or 247 miles across), is the one on the near side of the Rings, below Tethys. Janus (181 Km, or 113 miles across), is left of the Rings' edge. Pandora (84 Km, or 52 miles across) is a speck below the Rings' edge, between Janus and Mimas. Mimas casts a shadow onto Saturn's bluish Northern Hemisphere.
This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the Rings from about 2° above the Ring-Plane. Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this natural color view. The view was acquired with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Oct. 30, 2007.
The view was taken at a distance of approx. 2,6 MKM (such as about 1,6 MMs) from Saturn.
Image scale is roughly 153 Km (about 95 miles) per pixel on the Planet".
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