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Neon-lights in the night of Saturn
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Original caption:"Like a rope of brilliant neon, Saturn's Rings outshine everything else in this night side view, while the sunlit southern face of the Rings reflects a dim glow onto the atmosphere below. When viewed nearly edge-on, the Rings often appear very bright.
Epimetheus and Janus are mere specks to the left of the Ring edge (and Epimetheus being the outermost of the pair).
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Dec. 17, 2005, at a distance of approximately 2,7 MKM (such as about 1,7 MMs) from Saturn and at a Sun-Saturn-spacecraft angle of 75°. The image scale is about 164 Km (roughly 102 miles) per pixel".
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