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Obscure Planet, Bright Moons... (IR)
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Caption NASA:"Just before Rhea slipped behind Saturn, the Cassini Spacecraft captured the moon in its disappearing act.
Along with the partly obscured Rhea are Tethys, at right, and Enceladus, left of Tethys.
At the wavelength in which this image was taken, absorption of Sunlight by Methane gas in Saturn's Atmosphere is strong, causing the Planet to appear darker than at other wavelengths.
This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the Rings from about 4° above the Ring-Plane. The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Nov. 9, 2007 using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of Infrared Light centered at 890 nanometers. The view was acquired at a distance of approx. 2,8 MKM (about 1,7 MMs) from Saturn and at a Sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 44°.
Image scale is roughly162 Km (such as about 101 miles) per pixel".
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