#Cassini Saturn

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SPACEMAS DAY 20 ✨🪐🌎☄️☀️🌕

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Peering from the shadows, Saturn’s inner moon Enceladus is front and centre in this image from the Cassini spacecraft. North is up in the scene captured during November 2016 as Cassini's camera was pointed in a nearly sunward direction about 130,000 kilometers from the moon's bright crescent. In fact, the moon reflects over 90 percent of the sunlight it receives, giving its surface about the same reflectivity as fresh snow. Only about 500 kilometers in diameter, Enceladus is a surprisingly active moon. Data and images collected during Cassini's flybys have revealed water vapor and ice grains spewing from south polar geysers and evidence of an ocean of liquid water hidden beneath the moon's icy crust.

Image Credit & Copyright: NASA

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Saturn and its rings in visible/ultraviolet

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Saturn and Jupiter's Auroras l Cassini/Hubble

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Saturn and Enceladus

Credit: Jason Major

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10 years ago today: Planet Saturn, viewed by NASA's Cassini probe on August 18, 2013.

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Earth as seen through Saturn's ring(Cassini)

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The Earth As Seen From

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Cassini: looking Saturn in the eye (October 11, 2006)

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Rings of gas giants in our solar system.

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Saturn's Northern Hexagon © NASA Cassini

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The night side of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Sunlight scatters through Titan's atmosphere, forming purple and gray rings l NASA Cassini

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Saturn - nIR False Color - September 22 2009

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill

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A breathtaking view of Saturn captured by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft! Credit: NASA  :: 

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“He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets ...”

― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Prince of Mist

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Saturn's aurora