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Four of Saturn's moons parade by their parent

On 24 February 2009, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured a photo sequence of four moons of Saturn passing in front of their parent planet. The moons, from far left to right, are the white icy moons ...

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created Mar 17, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Image: Closest Dione flyby

(PhysOrg.com) -- Flying past Saturn's moon Dione, Cassini captured this view which includes two smaller moons, Epimetheus and Prometheus, near the planet's rings.

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created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Image: Saturn's Northern storm

(PhysOrg.com) -- This false-color mosaic from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the tail of Saturn's huge northern storm. In mid-September 2004, the Cassini spacecraft chronicled a similar, but smaller, storm ...

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created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Image: Saturn and its moon Dione

(PhysOrg.com) -- Saturn and Dione appear askew in this Cassini spacecraft view, with the north poles rotated to the right, as if they were threaded along on the thin diagonal line of the planet's rings.

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created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Space Image: Welcome disruption

(PhysOrg.com) -- The line of Saturn's rings disrupts the Cassini spacecraft's view of the moons Tethys and Titan.

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created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0