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Daybreak from above
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Caption NASA:"Day breaks on the Northern Hemisphere of Saturn in this image from Cassini. The D-Ring is hidden below the horizon, but, working outward from the Planet, this image shows the C, B, A and F-Rings. The moon Prometheus is a faint speck inside the thin F-Ring in the upper left of the image.
This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the Rings from about 39° above the Ring-Plane. The image was taken with the Cassini Spacecraft wide-angle camera on March 20, 2009 using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of Near-InfraRed Light centered at 853 nanometers.
The view was obtained at a distance of approx. 888.000 Km (such as about 552.000 miles) from Saturn and at a Sun-Saturn-Spacecraft, or Phase, Angle of 121°.
Image scale is roughly 50 Km (about 31 miles) per pixel".
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