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Saturn (natural colors; credits: NASA)
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Caption NASA:"The Cassini Spacecraft looks toward the sunlit face of Saturn's Rings, whose shadows continue to slide southward on the Planet toward their temporary disappearance during equinox in August 2009.
This two-frame color mosaic was created from images taken as part of a photometry observation of the Rings. Photometry observations are useful for determining a host of ring particle properties.
This view looks toward the sunlit side of the Rings from about 3° below the Ring-Plane. 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 Aug. 22, 2008 at a distance of approx. 1,2 MKM (such as about 728.000 miles) from Saturn.
Image scale is roughly 66 Km (about 41 miles) per pixel".
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