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Moons... (natural colors; credits: NASA)
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Caption NASA:"This colorful view, taken from edge-on with the Ring-Plane, contains 4 of Saturn's attendant moons. Tethys is seen against the black sky to the left of the Gas Giant's limb. Brilliant Enceladus sits against the Planet near right.
Irregular Hyperion is at the bottom of the image, near left. Much smaller Epimetheus is a speck below the Rings directly between Tethys and Enceladus. Epimetheus casts an equally tiny shadow onto the blue Northern Hemisphere, just above the thin shadow of the F-Ring.
Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this natural color view. The images were acquired with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on July 24, 2007 at a distance of approx. 2 MKM (about 1,2 MMs) from Saturn. Image scale is 116 kilometers (72 miles) per pixel on Saturn".
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