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Spokes on the B-Ring
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Caption NASA:"Saturn's B-Ring shows off bright Spokes in the middle of this image taken at high phase.
This image was captured at a Phase Angle of 119. To learn more about these ghostly radial markings, see PIA10567 and PIA11144.
This view looks toward the northern, sunlit side of the Rings from about 10 above the Ring-Plane. The image was taken in Visible Light with the Cassini Spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Aug. 20, 2009. The view was acquired at a distance of approx. 2,3 MKM (such as about 1,4 MMs) from Saturn.
Image scale is roughly 13 Km (about 8 miles) per pixel".
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