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Father and Son (natural colors; credits: NASA)
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Caption NASA:"The Cassini Spacecraft captured this color portrait of Saturn and Titan only a few minutes before the haze-enshrouded moon slipped behind the planet's enormous bulk. The view looks toward the sunlit side of the Rings from about 5° below the Ring-Plane.
The Northern Hemisphere of Titan presently appears darker than the Southern, a feature presumed to be a seasonal effect.
Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this natural color view. The images were acquired with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Jan. 29, 2008 at a distance of approx. 2,3 MKM (such as about 1,4 MMs) from Titan and approx. 1 MKM (about 630.000 miles) from Saturn.
Image scale is roughly 135 Km (about 84 miles) per pixel on Titan and approx. 61 Km (about 38 miles) per pixel on Saturn".
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