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A glorious photograph from the Cassini spacecraft, in orbit around Saturn, via APOD. (Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA.) Explanation: In the shadow of Saturn, unexpected wonders appear. The robotic Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn recently drifted in giant planet’s shadow for about 12 hours and ...
The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft has exceeded the wildest dreams of its creators at the Discovery Institute, sending back spectacular photographs like this one—a natural color image of Saturn taken from a distance of about 900,000 miles. (Oops. Did I say “Discovery Institute?” I meant “NASA.”) Cassini is now starting a ...
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.