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Crescent Saturn (Natural Colors; credits: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute)
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From Norther than the North Pole...
Caption NASA originale:"The Cassini spacecraft gazes down at the marvelous Rings and swirling clouds of giant Saturn from above the Planet's North Pole.
Such views are possible as the spacecraft performs its "180°-transfer," a key navigation maneuver that quickly raises the inclination of Cassini's orbit and shifts the orbital ellipse around to a different side of the Planet, before quickly lowering the inclination again.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Oct. 30, 2006. Cassini was then at a distance of approx. 1,2 MKM (about 700.000 miles) from Saturn and at a Sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 142°.
Image scale is roughly 67 Km (about 41 miles) per pixel".
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