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In-Between (Natural Colors; credits: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute)
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Caption NASA:"Two of Saturn's moons straddle the Planet's Rings in this view. Mimas is closest to the Cassini Spacecraft here. Epimetheus, instead, is on the far side of the Rings.
Saturn's shadow cuts across the middle of the Rings. This view looks toward the sunlit side of the Rings from just above the Ring-Plane.
Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this Natural Color view. The images were obtained with the Cassini Spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Oct. 24, 2009 at a distance of approx. 2,7 MKM (such as about 1,7 MMs) from Epimetheus and approx. 2,4 MKM (about 1,5 MMs) from Mimas.
Scale on Mimas is roughly 14 Km (a little less than 9 miles) per pixel".
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