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Spooky Spokes! (MULTISPECTRUM; credits: Lunexit)
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Caption NASA:"As they wheel about the Planet, Saturn's sunlit Rings often exhibit dark, radial markings called "spokes". Spokes are seen only in the broad B-Ring, and can also appear bright in certain viewing geometries.
This view looks toward the sunlit side of the Rings from about 11° below the Ring-Plane.
Pandora (about 81 kilometers, or approx. 50 miles across) is a speck above the Rings at left. The Planet's shadow darkens the Ring-Plane at lower right.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini Spacecraft wide-angle camera on June 3, 2008. The view was acquired at a distance of approx. 1 MKM (about 636.000 miles) from Saturn and at a Sun-Saturn-Spacecraft, or Phase, Angle of 19°.
Image scale is roughly 61 Km (approx. 38 miles) per pixel".
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