Science Photo of the Day

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Sat Jun 14, 2008 at 10:13 am PDT • Views: 270

Boston.com has a retrospective of the photos taken by the Discovery Institute’s Cassini spacecraft as it orbited Saturn, including this amazing shot of the entire planet backlit by the Sun.

Oops! Did I say “Discovery Institute?” I meant “NASA.” It’s easy to get them confused.

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