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$Out of the Dark... Caption NASA:"As Ring particles emerge from the darkness of Saturn's shadow, they pass through a region of twilight. The Sun's light, refracted by the Planet's atmosphere, peeks around the limb, followed shortly by the Sun itself. The "penumbra" is the narrow fringe Region of the Planet's shadow where part (but not all) of the Sun is visible around the side of the Planet, creating only a partial shadow there and making the shadow edge look fuzzy. The A and F-Rings are captured here. This view looks toward the unlit side of the Rings from about 20° above the Ring-Plane. Two faint ringlets can be seen within the Encke Gap, which stretches out of the blackness at center and toward right. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Sept. 12, 2006 at a distance of approx. 1,5 MKM (about 900.000 miles) from Saturn and at a phase angle of 163°. Image scale is roughly 9 Km (about 5 miles)". Parole chiave: Postcard from Saturn$

Out of the Dark...

Caption NASA:"As Ring particles emerge from the darkness of Saturn's shadow, they pass through a region of twilight. The Sun's light, refracted by the Planet's atmosphere, peeks around the limb, followed shortly by the Sun itself.
The "penumbra" is the narrow fringe Region of the Planet's shadow where part (but not all) of the Sun is visible around the side of the Planet, creating only a partial shadow there and making the shadow edge look fuzzy.

The A and F-Rings are captured here. This view looks toward the unlit side of the Rings from about 20° above the Ring-Plane. Two faint ringlets can be seen within the Encke Gap, which stretches out of the blackness at center and toward right.

The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Sept. 12, 2006 at a distance of approx. 1,5 MKM (about 900.000 miles) from Saturn and at a phase angle of 163°. Image scale is roughly 9 Km (about 5 miles)".

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Nome del file:	Saturn-PIA08297.jpg
Nome album:	Saturn: the "Ringed Beauty" and His Moons
Valutazione (5 voti):	(Mostra dettagli)
Parole chiave:	Postcard / from / Saturn
Copyright:	NASA - Cassini Mission
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Data di inserimento:	Ott 27, 2006
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