File:Looking cool and serene, Saturn shares its soft glow with Cassini.jpg
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English: The robotic Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn has captured the giant planet and its majestic rings soon after equinox. Imaged from nearly behind, Saturn and its moon Tethys each show a crescent phase to Cassini that is not visible from Earth. As the rings continue to point nearly toward the Sun, only a thin shadow of Saturn's rings is visible across the centre of the planet. Close inspection of Saturn's rings, however, shows superposed bright features identified as spokes that are thought to be groups of very small electrically charged ice particles. |
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Images taken using red, blue and green spectral filters were combined to create this colour view. The images were acquired with the Cassini wide-angle camera at a distance of 1.7 million kilometres from Saturn.
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