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The "Crowded" Saturnian Sky
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Caption NASA:"A string of icy moons stretches across the Saturn System in this view from nearly edge-on with the Ring-Plane.
Nearest to the Cassini spacecraft is Rhea (1528 Km, or about 949 miles across) below center; then little Atlas (32 Km, or about 20 miles across), huddled close to the narrow F-Ring. Dione (1126 Km, or about 700 miles across) floats in the distance beyond.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on July 8, 2007 at a distance of approx. 2,9 MKM (about 1,8 MMs) from Saturn. Image scale is roughly 14 Km (about 9 miles) per pixel on Rhea and 19 Km (about 12 miles) per pixel on Dione".
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